The liquid city of Megalopolis

• Autores: John Rennie Short
• Localización: Documents d'anàlisi geogràfica, ISSN-e 2014-4512, ISSN 0212-1573, Nº 55, 2009, págs. 77-92
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Large city-regions around the world are the principal hubs of economic and cultural globalization. In the United States, for example, 10 megapolitan regions, defined as clustered networks of metropolitan regions, have been identified. Using the criterion of contiguous metropolitan counties, in this paper I propose a definition of US Megalopolis that consists of 52,310 square miles stretching across 12 states, one district (District of Columbia), 124 counties, 13 metropolitan areas and the four major metro regions of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington-Baltimore. In the rest of the paper, I discuss, in turn, the environmental impacts, the economic restructuring and the political entity of Megalopolis.