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Megaregions: Thinking Big Catherine L. Ross, Harry West Professor
City Planning\Civil and Environmental EngineeringGeorgia Institute of Technology
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“Tomorrow’s map will be vastly different from today’s. Great pouches over much of it will indicate the super-metropolis cities which are already evolving out of our once-separated urban centers.”
Published in the Chicago Tribune on July 23, 1961.
Megaregions Predicted
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“The ‘regional cities’ of tomorrow will be nearly continuous complexes of homes, business centers, factories, shops, and service places…
They will be saved from traffic self-suffocation by high-speed transportation – perhaps monorails that provide luxurious nonstop service between the inner centers of the Supercities, as well as links between the super-metropolises themselves.”
Megaregions were predicted in the 1960s!
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Megaregions
“The neighborhood is a critical building block for a city, cities are now the building blocks for megaregions which in turn are the new economic unit in world markets.”
Ross, Catherine. Megaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness, Island Press, 2009
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Megaregions
Megaregions…………
Networks of metropolitan centers and their surrounding areas, connected by existing environmental, economic and infrastructure relationships.
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Megaregions in Asia
Source: Who’s Your City, Richard Florida (2008). [www.whosyourcity.com]
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Megaregions- A World View
Emerging European Megaregions
London, England
Source: Megacities Press Special, Siemens AG, 2008. [http://w1.siemens.com/press/en/events/megacities/index.php]
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Megaregions
Cities that A
nchor Megaregions
Atlanta, Georgia
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Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham
Crossing the Border
How people will live and work in the future?
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Source: Volpe Webinar 07/24/2012 (ARC)
Significance of National Gateways
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Freight and Megaregions» Global goods movement:
Port of Savannah » Connected places:
emerging economies of megaregions as new economic development opportunities– Establishing interdependent critical
infrastructure
– Creating multi-jurisdictional growth strategies and action initiatives (agglomeration economics across borders)
– Recognizing domestic and global regional networks
– Linking freight and economic growth policy
– Developing advanced analytics to capture regional trade networks
– E-commerce impact on logistics and freight corridors
Introduction Team Study Context Why RS&HApproach Questions
Source: Ross, C. Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development
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By 2050, the U.S. population will exceed 400 million. More than 70 percent of those people will probably reside in or live near one of 10 mega-regions scattered across the country.
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Emerging TrendsShifts in Freight Movement
• Panama Canal Expansion in 2015 expected to change supply chain configurations and redirect movement to east coast ports.
• Ports deepening harbors
• Shipping companies buying larger ships
• Rising costs of labor in China expected to change production locations
Source: Rodrigue, 2010. http://people.hofstra.edu/jean-paul_rodrigue/downloads/Panama%20Canal%20Study%202011%20Final.pdf
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10 megaregions account for 30% of national territory and 75% of the nation’s population and employment.
MEGAREGIONNON-
MEGAREGION
Area 29.6% 70.4%
Population(2008)
76.54% 23.46%
Employment (2008)
76.98% 23.02%
GRP (2008) 81.47% 18.53%
Fortune 500 companies revenue (2008)
92.07% 7.93%
Patents (2008)
86.77% 13.23%Megaregions-scale analysis captures relevant
economic and demographic phenomena
Megaregions Why Megaregions Matter
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Planning tool appropriate for the global economy
Spill over traditional metropolitan boundaries
Economic Base
Transport activities/interactions economic contribution
Big planning challenges – don’t match existing institutions very well
Why Megaregions Matter
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Piedmont Atlantic MegaregionOverview
• Megaregion stretching from Birmingham to Raleigh.
• Fast growing population, development, and business.
• Definition by Contant, Ross, et al. (2005) accounts for—
• Population• Development patterns• Geographic characteristics• Passenger and freight
movement• Infrastructure linkages• Ecologically sensitive
areas Source: Contant, Ross, et al., 2005. http://www.cqgrd.gatech.edu/sites/files/cqgrd/files/cqgrd_2005_pam.pdf
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Economic Competitiveness n
Industries cluster within regions due to economies of scale or agglomeration effects
Sub-centers develop complementary economies and through cooperation position themselves advantageously in the global marketplace
A unified geographic entity with the combined assets of its sub-regions may rise to greater global prominence
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Piedmont Atlantic MegaregionCharacteristics
• Growing and leading industries based on location quotients include—• Wholesale • Management • Administrative and waste services• Construction• Transportation and warehousing
Source: Ross et al., 2012. Megaregions: Gap and Opportunity Analysis for the U.S. Megaregions
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The twenty-first century requires a high quality physical environment that is attractive to knowledge workers with a responsive, efficient government.
Regions will be prosperous because they achieve a high quality of life.
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Conclusions
Challenges of Growth on Infrastructure Likely to Continue
Multiple Stakeholders Will Present Difficulties in Planning Process
• Population, economic, and freight growth.• Will require new ways of working together to
coordinate investment across boundaries.
Successful Approaches to Planning Programs Are Being
Tested and Refined
• Case studies present opportunities for refining planning practice.
• Successful planning will need to bring together public- and private-sector actors at different levels and scales.
New and Ever-Changing Dynamics• Freight movement is in permanent
transformation, driven by economic processes and technological innovation.