More than two-thirds of US citizens live in
ROBERT STEUTEVILLE SEP. 1, 2005
More than two-thirds of US citizens live in the nation’s 10 megalopolises — from the Northeast seaboard’s vast urbanized area, which runs from Maine to Virginia, to “Cascadia,” which extends from Oregon to southwest British Columbia. In an article in the July 2005 Land Lines, the newsletter of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Robert E. Lang and Dawn Dhavale argue that these “megapolitan areas” are key geographical entities and could be used for setting public policy on issues such as transit and combating sprawl. “In Europe, megapolitan-like spatial planning now guides new infrastructure investment such as high-speed trains between networked cities. The US should do the same,” the authors write. The article is available online at www.lincolninst.edu. u
