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By John R Short

ISBN-10: 1933115491

ISBN-13: 9781933115498

ISBN-10: 1933115505

ISBN-13: 9781933115504

Megalopolis was once the identify given to a Peloponnesian urban that used to be based round 371- 368 BCE. although deliberate on a grand scale, the town didn't detect the goals of the founders, and it declined by way of the past due Roman interval. In 1957, the well known geographer Jean Gottman utilized the time period in his description of the densely populated quarter of the northeastern usa that incorporates the towns of Boston, manhattan, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington.

Liquid urban is the 1st ebook to envision the social, monetary, and demographic adjustments that experience taken position in Megalopolis over the last fifty years. approximately one in six american citizens dwell within the glossy Megalopolis, making it one of many biggest urban areas on the earth. John Rennie brief juxtaposes Gottman's paintings along with his personal exam, supplying a entire evaluate of the region's evolution.

Particularly vital are his use of 2000 Census information and his discussions of resources of id, solidarity, and fragmentation in Megalopolis. Emphasizing the fluid, variable personality of Megalopolis, this transparent and available e-book makes a speciality of 5 points of swap: inhabitants redistribution from towns to suburbs; financial restructuring; immigration; styles of racial/ethnic segregation; and the procedures of globalization that experience made one of many world's such a lot influential economies.

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