Megaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness (2009)
Timeframe: January 2007 to November 2008
Sponsor/Client: Ford Foundation
Project Scale: national and international
Partners: Georgia Tech's City and Regional Planning Program
Program Areas:
This book is an edited volume of the work of a select group of scholars and theoreticians that contributes to the development of the theoretical underpinnings of spatial planning in an American context. The volume addresses the most critical issues confronting us over the next 50 years of American growth, development, and global competition. The authors examine particular ways in which spatial planning may be useful in addressing equity, environmental, and economic concerns. The rising significance of the region and city-regions in the global economy, and the challenges currently confronting American cities and regions, clearly signal the timeliness of this book.
Reviews
"This book deftly navigates through the largely uncharted waters of megaregions in twenty-first century America. With contributions from some of the best mids in the field, it challenges us to pursue public infrastructure investments that increase global competitiveness, redress spatial inequalities that occur when trade-sheds expand, and forge new forms of governance that protect natural habitats and resources across multistate regions." |
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ROBERT CERVERO, professor of city and regional planning, University of California, Berkeley; director, University of California Transportation Center |
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"As the contributors to this timely and valuable book make clear, America's continued strength in the global economy is dependednt on our ability to rethink the spatial and functional infrastructure that links our communities into larger networks - megaregions. Together, the chapters in this book elucidate this complex and essential underlying force in our lives, and offer guidelines for going forward." |
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WILLIAM W. MILLAR, president, American Public Transportation Association (APTA) |
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"What are megaregions good for? As this book amply demonstrates, the megaregion construct of linked metropolitan areas set within their environmental context has provoked new thinking about urban planning, infrastructure, economic development, ecology, and social equity. In short, megaregions are helping us to organize responses to the challenges of the twenty-first century at an effective scale." |
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ARMANDO CARBONELL, chairman, Department of Planning and Urban Form, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy |
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"Ross's book investigates the origin of megaregions, and ways that transportation, economic development, social justice, and environmental and climate strategies must be formulated at this new scale. This book is essential reading for policymakers, planners, and others interested in learning about these places that are now home to nearly three out of four Americans." |
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ROBERT D. YARO, president, Regional Plan Association; Professor of Practice, University of Pennsylvania |
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Book Information
Paperback: 336 pages
