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I'd put Charlotte with Raleigh before I'd put it with Richmond. Metrolina+Research Triangle would be one powerful kick butt metro.
I was just about to say that. For comparison sake I will refer to the Raleigh MSA, which would replace the Durham MSA with the Charlotte MSA. I would assume the new CSA name would be Charlotte-Raleigh-Cary. It would probably be the size on Minneapolis-St.Paul but with a GDP of $172 Billion. Pretty impressive. You wouldn't have Duke or Chapel Hill but you'd have UNC Charlotte, NC State, and a host of HBCUs, Queens University of Charlotte, Winthrop, Meredith, among other schools. I'd say the college line up is still impressive.
Chicago and San Francisco. Those two metros combined would be an incredible power.
I think we could even get away with swallowing up everything between these cities..
Yea,first Iowa Nebraska Kansas Colorado Utah Nevada Missouri and Wyoming,and then the world!
Staying in the Carolina's, I would like to see Wilmington and Charleston, Durham and Winston, Columbia and Greensboro. Going outside of my state, I wouldn't mind seeing Charlotte and Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Birmingham, Chicago and Toronto, Seattle and Minneapolis, Houston and Dallas, Denver and Sal Lake, Phoenix and ABQ, Cleveland and St. Louis, Philly and Baltimore.
Perhaps one I'd really like to see is Charlotte and Indianapolis or Charlotte and Columbus.
Seattle & San Francisco- would be a national center for technology, education, finance, and a very dominant, very urban metro. I wouldn't mind seeing Seattle paired up with Portland, Vancouver, Minneapolis, or Denver either.
Staying in the Carolina's, I would like to see Wilmington and Charleston, Durham and Winston, Columbia and Greensboro. Going outside of my state, I wouldn't mind seeing Charlotte and Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Birmingham, Chicago and Toronto, Seattle and Minneapolis, Houston and Dallas, Denver and Sal Lake, Phoenix and ABQ, Cleveland and St. Louis, Philly and Baltimore.
Perhaps one I'd really like to see is Charlotte and Indianapolis or Charlotte and Columbus.
Since this entire exercise is hypothetical, why so many cities that are already alike? You'd just be creating metros that are bigger versions than what they already are. I think it would be much more interesting to see cities that compliment each other be paired up. For instance, combining Charlotte and Charleston would give you a great skyline, a dense and historic urban core, major league professional sports, great cuisine, a great variety of educational institutions, natural water features, and an awesome nightlife. Now THAT would be a kick-ass metro!
I'd love to see a merger of Cleveland and Columbus, resulting in a fabulous midwest metropolis to rival Chicago ...
Take the outstanding wealth of cultural endowments in Cleveland ... the museums, orchestra and Playhouse Square, along with the WORLD CLASS HEALTHCARE of Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals, and beautiful and spacious suburban areas ... "and combine all of these elements with the many strengths of burgeoning Columbus" ... a youthful, vibrant and growing city that offers many amenities in it's own right.
The merger of these two cities would create a city of "WorldlyStature", thus being one of Americas largest and most vital metro areas.
Cowtown offers Cleveland nothing. Columbus is far too generic and suburban with a singular attribute as being home to a Big Ten university. It really has more in common with Champaign, Ill., than it does with Cleveland.
I'd say positive growth and a better reputation constitute something.
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You'd just be creating metros that are bigger versions than what they already are. I think it would be much more interesting to see cities that compliment each other be paired up. For instance, combining Charlotte and Charleston would give you a great skyline, a dense and historic urban core, major league professional sports, great cuisine, a great variety of educational institutions, natural water features, and an awesome nightlife. Now THAT would be a kick-ass metro!
