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Megaregions: Thinking Big Catherine L. Ross, Harry West Professor
City Planning\Civil and Environmental EngineeringGeorgia Institute of Technology
“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
“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!
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
Megaregions
Megaregions…………
Networks of metropolitan centers and their surrounding areas, connected by existing environmental, economic and infrastructure relationships.
Megaregions in Asia
Source: Who’s Your City, Richard Florida (2008). [www.whosyourcity.com]
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]
Megaregions
Cities that A
nchor Megaregions
Atlanta, Georgia
Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham
Crossing the Border
How people will live and work in the future?
Source: Volpe Webinar 07/24/2012 (ARC)
Significance of National Gateways
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
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.
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
GPS Truck Data
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.