Megalopolis – the new American frontier?

March 27, 2006 by  

On Edge of Va. Sprawl, Labels Crumble, New Lives Thrive:

Maybe the question is not what we think we are, but what do we want to be?"

It is a question that might apply to any number of similar areas across
the country, places far down the highway and then a couple of exits
more, fast-changing places that demographers have struggled to describe.

Over the years, such areas have been called exurbs and
disurbs, edge counties and edgeless cities, exopoli, outtowns,
penturbias, rururbias, slurbs and, curiously, net of mixed beads. Still
other terms grasp at their relation to neighboring areas: archipelago
economy, global network of nodes and hubs, planetary urban networks.

Increasingly, Lang believes, technology will untether
people from long commutes and offices, making the outward expansion
ever more appealing and geographic centers less fixed and more relative.

(Via washingtonpost.com – Business.)

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