Megapolitan America by Arthur Nelson
Only eighteen percent of the contiguous forty-eight states land base, America's megapolitan areas are more densely settled than Europe as a whole or the United Kingdom. Megapolitan America goes into spectacular demographic, economic, and social detail in mapping the dramatic and surprisingly optimistic shifts ahead.
This book is part planning manual, part atlas, part reference guide, part call to action-all about the most important economic and social development taking place in the country todayArthur Nelson and Robert Lang's description of the nation's "megapolitan" regions will change the way we think of the economy and how we all have come to live. Let's hope it also changes the way we act in the future. -Bill Bishop, author of The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart This is an extraordinary book. It completely and--in my largely lay judgment--correctly reorients our thinking about where our cities and communities are going both physically and in terms of actual living. What an extraordinary contribution to our thinking on these issues. This should be required reading--and I rarely say that--for every governor, mayor, legislator, city council member, Chamber of Commerce member, and, indeed, citizen! --Michael K. Young, President, University of Washington
Arthur C. Nelson, FAICP, is Presidential Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah, where he is also director of the Metropolitan Research Center.
Robert E. Lang is the director of Brookings Mountain West and a professor of sociology at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas; he is also a nonresident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781932364972 |
| ISBN 10 | 1932364978 |
| Title | Megapolitan America |
| Author | Arthur Nelson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Year published | 2013-01-31 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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