Overview
With an expected population of 400 million by 2040, America is morphing into an economic system composed of 23 ""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 2.5 times as many people. Indeed, with only 18 percent of the contiguous 48 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Arthur Nelson ,
Robert Lang ,
Armondo Carbonell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint: American Planning Association
Dimensions:
Width: 19.10cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.852kg
ISBN: 9781932364972
ISBN 10: 1932364978
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 31 January 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This is an extraordinary book. It completely and--in my largely lay judgment--correctly reorients our thinking about where our cities and communities are going both physically and in terms of actual living. What an extraordinary contribution to our thinking on these issues. This should be required reading--and I rarely say that--for every governor, mayor, legislator, city council member, Chamber of Commerce member, and, indeed, citizen! --Michael K. Young, President, University of Washington
This book is part planning manual, part atlas, part reference guide, part call to action all about the most important economic and social development taking place in the country today. Arthur Nelson and Robert Lang s description of the nation s megapolitan regions will change the way we think of the economy and how we all have come to live. Let s hope it also changes the way we act in the future. -Bill Bishop, author of The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
This book is part planning manual, part atlas, part reference guide, part call to action all about the most important economic and social development taking place in the country today. Arthur Nelson and Robert Lang s description of the nation s megapolitan regions will change the way we think of the economy and how we all have come to live. Let s hope it also changes the way we act in the future.-Bill Bishop, author of The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
Author Information
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 Westaand 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.
