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Megapolitan America: A New Vision for Understanding America's Metropolitan Geography - Couverture rigide

Nelson, Arthur; Lang, Robert

 
9781932364972: Megapolitan America: A New Vision for Understanding America's Metropolitan Geography
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1932364978 ISBN 13 : 9781932364972
Editeur : American Planning Association, 2013

Synopsis

With an expected population of 400 million by 2040, America is morphing into an economic system composed of twenty-three 'megapolitan' areas that will dominate the nation's economy by midcentury. These 'megapolitan' areas are networks of metropolitan areas sharing common economic, landscape, social, and cultural characteristics.

The rise of 'megapolitan' areas will change how America plans. For instance, in an area comparable in size to France and the low countries of the Netherlands and Belgium - considered among the world's most densely settled - America's 'megapolitan' areas are already home to more than two and a half times as many people. Indeed, with only eighteen percent of the contiguous forty-eight states' land base, America's megapolitan areas are more densely settled than Europe as a whole or the United Kingdom.

Megapolitan America goes into spectacular demographic, economic, and social detail in mapping the dramatic - and surprisingly optimistic - shifts ahead. It will be required reading for those interested in America's future.

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À propos de l'auteur

Arthur C. Nelson, FAICP, is Presidential Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah, where he is also director of the Metropolitan Research Center.

Robert E. Lang is the director of Brookings Mountain West　and a professor of sociology at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas; he is also a nonresident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.

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Éditeur
American Planning Association
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1932364978
ISBN 13 
9781932364972
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
312
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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