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I think this is a great article that really defines the USAs megapolitan areas. Read this article and tell me if agree. Does the USA have 23 megapolitan areas that form 10 mega-regions or is this article far fetched? I am familiar with the Piedmont Atlantic and I can tell it is pretty spot on. I think it does a great job characterizing the the 3 different areas of the Northeast mega-region: the Chesapeake, mid-Atlantic, and New England. So here are the different megapolitan. Feel free to add your reasoning for why certain areas are or aren't mega regions: Cascadia:Puget Sound, Willamette Sound Sierra Pacific (Bay Area, Sacramento) SouthWest: Southern California, Las VegasSun Corridor Mountain: Front Range, Wasatch Range Texas Triangle: DFW, Houston, Central Texas Great Lakes: Ohio Valley, Steel Corridor, Michigan Corridor, Chicago Twin Cities Megalopolis: New England, NYC/Phily, Chesapeake Piedmont Atlantic: Carolina Piedmont, Georgia Piedmont Florida: Florida Atlantic, Central Florida
I think this is a great article that really defines the USAs megapolitan areas. Read this article and tell me if agree. Does the USA have 23 megapolitan areas that form 10 mega-regions or is this article far fetched? I am familiar with the Piedmont Atlantic and I can tell it is pretty spot on. I think it does a great job characterizing the the 3 different areas of the Northeast mega-region: the Chesapeake, mid-Atlantic, and New England. So here are the different megapolitan. Feel free to add your reasoning for why certain areas are or aren't mega regions: Cascadia:Puget Sound, Willamette Sound Sierra Pacific (Bay Area, Sacramento) SouthWest: Southern California, Las VegasSun Corridor Mountain: Front Range, Wasatch Range Texas Triangle: DFW, Houston, Central Texas Great Lakes: Ohio Valley, Steel Corridor, Michigan Corridor, Chicago Twin Cities Megalopolis: New England, NYC/Phily, Chesapeake Piedmont Atlantic: Carolina Piedmont, Georgia Piedmont Florida: Florida Atlantic, Central Florida
I can tell most people did not read the article. Seeing as how Megalopolis only has one vote which is the BosWash region. Here is a map.
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Bos-Wash and SoCal and that's about it. Beyond those two areas I'd say revisit the subject in about 30-50 years. Some of these "corridors" seem very disjointed.
Some of these are a huge stretch. Denver and Salt Lake City are separated by hundreds of miles of mountains. Southern California is FAR more connected to the Bay Area than it is to Phoenix. And I'm not sure how Pittsburgh can be lumped in with Chicago.
I can tell most people did not read the article. Seeing as how Megalopolis only has one vote which is the BosWash region. Here is a map. Attachment 125956
Are you expecting scientific results? You will be disappointed. People vote on online polls in ways that reflect their own opinions and agendas.
The way that megapolitan is defined, it pretty much is the new CSA. It seems that the CSA of the Twin Cities will be over 5 million by 2030
I don't disagree about there being a Twin Cities CSA. However, they talk a lot about "megaclusters" and networks of cities...When I think of a cluster of cities, I think of areas with major metro areas within proximity of each other (Philly/NYC/DC/Boston or LA/SD/Tijuana or SF/San Jose/Oakland or even Chicago/Milwaukee). Regardless of there being a Twin Cities CSA, there isn't another major metro area around for miles and miles.
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