Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale

by Jonathan Barnett

The US population is estimated to grow by more than 110 million people by 2050, and much of this growth will take place where cities and their suburbs are expanding to meet the suburbs of neighboring cities, creating continuous urban megaregions. There are now at least a dozen megaregions in the US. If current trends continue unchanged, new construction in these megaregions will put more and more stress on the natural systems that are necessary for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1642830437
• ISBN13: 9781642830439
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"