Posted on 02/09/2014 3:15:18 PM PST by Twotone
This map from the Regional Plan Association, an urban research institute in New York, shows how the country is really organized and it's not primarily around individual cities.
Instead, their America 2050 project proposes that we begin to view the country's urban areas not as discrete metropolitan areas but as interconnected "megaregions." Megaregions are areas where large cities and the spaces in between share "interlocking economic systems, shared natural resources and ecosystems, and common transportation systems."
(Excerpt) Read more at policymic.com ...
um why are 2 of the regions bleeding into Canada?
“The dummies in those designated areas don’t raise food, they only buy it.”
If you consider using an EBT card “buying” it...
Thank you!
Its not working; most of the conservative minded folks I know in Texas are moving as far as they can from the mega cities.
Compare / Contrast
Interesting that the island of Oahu has a circle denoting it is such a region. Makes sense, with 80% of the state's population crammed in there. Most of the other islands are disgusted with the Honolulu centric way the state is governed and want little to do with them.
Looks like one of the unstated goals is the annexation of the Ontario peninsula....it is included in the “Great Lakes” as though already part of the US.
Left and right meet.
I tell you that the great cities rest upon these broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
Willian Jennings Bryan, "Cross of Gold" speech, July 9, 1896
Dang knarf. I think you broke the internet with that graphic.
It’s still loading..................
Took about two sentences to understand it was an appeal for high-speed rail.
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That’s much better.
We’re on high-speed cable and knarf’s map was taking forever to load.
Yeah it was taking a while for me too. Probably due to the site hosting the photo.
The AZ sun corridor is the part of AZ where people live. Not really sure that’s a demographic divide.
They did this in Montreal. 27 independent municipalities on the island were forced to merge into the city of Montreal.
Its a definite demographic divide here in Michigan since only the Detroit districts vote democrat and the rest of the state goes republican.
Those of us who live along the border are tied economically to others across the border.
Because Detroit and Seattle weren't properly quarantined at the border.
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