05 December 2011

Megapolitans ~ US Super-Regional Blocs...

Megapolitan areas compete globally writes Haya El Nasser in the USAToday...
"The long-struggling U.S. economy has made once-competing municipalities more receptive to [...] reaching across county lines and even state borders and aligning themselves as one economic bloc. It's the birth of a new geography: "megapolitans," regions that encompass cities and counties linked through man-made and natural connections such as shared transportation networks, labor markets or water supplies. Because population and economic growth is not spread evenly across the country (the 309 million Americans occupy only a quarter of all private land), planners and demographers for several years have advocated planning on a scale larger than cities, metropolitan areas or states."

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