Planning For Megaregions

With the economic, environmental and social fortunes of nearby urban areas increasingly linked, there is growing interest in developing new strategies for large-scale regional planning.

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April 19, 2007, 8:00 AM PDT

By Christian Madera @http://www.twitter.com/cpmadera

The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy reports on one of the reemerging trends in planning -- megaregions.

"Interest in the concept of 'megaregions' - clusters of neighboring large metropolitan centers that share economic activity and transportation, like the Boston-Washington corridor - is on the rise. Earlier this month, former governors Parris Glendenning (Maryland) and Michael Dukakis (Massachusetts) led a roundtable in Philadelphia on breaking down political boundaries, making regional transportation investments in high-speed rail and other transport services, and protecting the environment on a regional basis."

"This new approach to planning has been actively supported by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in exchanges that have had an important and evolving connection to Europe. Armando Carbonell, chair of the Institute's Department of Planning and Urban Form and a contributor to the Barnett book, recalls initial gatherings in the late 1990s that evolved into a regular meeting of American and European planners to explore ways to learn from one another on broad-based regional planning."

FULL STORY: Megaregions, the U.S. and Europe

Thursday, March 29, 2007 in Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

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