Sentence:  The modern suburb is a logical corollary of this fossil fuel powered narrative and expresses it in holographic detail. And its ascendancy continues: suburbs and their appurtenances mushroom at and between the fringes of the world's metropolitan cores, following Doxiadess'<!-- [sic] --> <WSD>"ecumenopolitan</WSD>" premonitions with the precision of a large oil spill […] 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of or conducive to the development, befitting the scale, or characteristic of an ecumenopolis or ecumenopoleis.