ecumenopolitan

Etymology
. First reliably attested in 1974: either, as from, or a generalised use thereof, parallel with the development of.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or conducive to the development, befitting the scale, or characteristic of an ecumenopolis or ecumenopoleis.
 * 2) * 1971: The Mastery of Urban Growth: Report of the International Colloquium, Brussels, 2–4 December 1969, page 47 (Mens en ruimte, M. plus R international)
 * […] “ecumenopolitan” formations.
 * 1) * 1987: J. F. Brotchie, Peter Geoffrey Hall, and Peter Wesley Newton [eds.], The Spatial Impact of Technological Change, pages 413⁽¹⁾ and 414⁽²⁾ (Croom Helm; ISBN 0709950063, 9780709950066)
 * ⁽¹⁾ For the mid 1980s I estimate that at least one million adults belong to the ecumenopolitan stratum; several times as many are in the educational stream with ambitions to join them.
 * ⁽²⁾ Iranians were graduated from North American universities with motivations that are virtually indistinguishable from their classmates, but their command of Asian languages and their entrepreneurship generates a backflow of ecumenopolitan commitments to Asia.
 * 1) * 2007: Baleshwar Thakur, George Pomeroy, Chris Cusack, and Sudhir K Thakur [eds.], City, Society, and Planning, volume 1: “City”, page 16 (Concept Publishing Company ; ISBN 8180694593
 * The prospective urban implies, therefore, ecumenopolitan order.
 * 1) * 1987: J. F. Brotchie, Peter Geoffrey Hall, and Peter Wesley Newton [eds.], The Spatial Impact of Technological Change, pages 413⁽¹⁾ and 414⁽²⁾ (Croom Helm; ISBN 0709950063, 9780709950066)
 * ⁽¹⁾ For the mid 1980s I estimate that at least one million adults belong to the ecumenopolitan stratum; several times as many are in the educational stream with ambitions to join them.
 * ⁽²⁾ Iranians were graduated from North American universities with motivations that are virtually indistinguishable from their classmates, but their command of Asian languages and their entrepreneurship generates a backflow of ecumenopolitan commitments to Asia.
 * 1) * 2007: Baleshwar Thakur, George Pomeroy, Chris Cusack, and Sudhir K Thakur [eds.], City, Society, and Planning, volume 1: “City”, page 16 (Concept Publishing Company ; ISBN 8180694593
 * The prospective urban implies, therefore, ecumenopolitan order.

Noun

 * 1) An inhabitant of an ecumenopolis, especially one actively involved in its political arena.
 * 2) * 1987: J. F. Brotchie, Peter Geoffrey Hall, and Peter Wesley Newton [eds.], The Spatial Impact of Technological Change, pages 419⁽¹⁾ and 420⁽²⁾ (Croom Helm; ISBN 0709950063, 9780709950066)
 * ⁽¹⁾ A large share of the ecumenopolitans may not take the trouble to operate their own vehicles.
 * ⁽²⁾ The automata and the ecumenopolitans are inherently symbiotic, but the new breed will be specialists who are virtually bionic.
 * ⁽²⁾ The automata and the ecumenopolitans are inherently symbiotic, but the new breed will be specialists who are virtually bionic.