Index 100 mile metroplex 119 Arkansas University 8 million city 156–7, 160 landscape architecture program 225 Asian mega-cities 31, 54–5, 77 Adriatic–Ionian Region 163 Asian Newly Industrialized Economies advanced producer service (APS) firms Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, 15–17, 54, 78, 81, 83, 157–8, 192 Singapore 188 Africa 22, 242–3, 248 Austin (Texas Triangle) 222 mega-cities 31 automobile travel, long-distance 211 Pieterse, E. 14 agglomeration economies 12, 236, 251 B7 Baltic Island Network 161 Agnew, J.A. Baltic 21 161 on ‘regional logics’ 11 Baltic Development Fund (BDF) 161 regions as classification device 41 Baltic Europe 161 Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, Hunting Baltic Metropoles Network 161 (AFFH) Baltic Sea Region Texas Triangle, Gulf Coast 220 development perspective 164 air travel, assumption of growth 108 macro-region 162–3, 167 Ăland islands 152 pollution 167 Allegheny County, PA soft spaces 165–6 boundary reform, 1920s 129 transnational governance 161–7 structural reforms, 1950s 130 Baltic Sea States Sub-Regional Allen, J. 10, 41, 122–3 Cooperation (BSSSC) 161 Alpine Region 163 Bassin Parisien 82 Alsop, W. 86 Baton Rouge (Gulf Coast) MSA, America 2050 2–3, 13, 19–20, 102, 123, economic indicators 221 133, 202, 210, 234 BAU (‘business-as-usual’) forms of map with megaregions 3 development 97, 108, 113, 246 map of sub-regions 100–101 Bauman, Z. 41 American Community Survey (ACS) Bay Area Council 102, 110 208–9, 212 Bay Area Regional Transit (BART) 106 American Society of Landscape ‘Bay Vision 2020’ 102 Architects 223 Beaumont (Texas Triangle) MSA 240 Amiens, ancient cathedral town, Belarus 161–3 France 82 Benner, C. 65, 101, 111 Ancient Greece Berry, B. colonial towns 104 on ‘cities as systems within systems Megalopolis 6 of cities’ 57, 61 archipelago economy 1 ‘bigger is better’ trend 77, 236, 245–6 Arizona State University (ASU) biomimicry, green infrastructure environmental planning program 225 concept 223 Arizona Sun Corridor 21 ‘Blue Banana’ 13, 77, 134, 149 257 John Harrison and Michael Hoyler - 9781782547907 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/28/2021 08:05:50AM via free access 258 Megaregions Bohai Economic Rim, China 192 ‘century of the city’ 200 Bolleter, J. 14, 205 Chartres, ancient cathedral town, boosterism 19, 21, 29, 42, 46, 243 France 82 Boston 33, 53 Chesterton G.K. 23 Boston–Washington megalopolis 53–4, Chicago, IL 53, 91, 100 83 Chicago school of sociology 56, 60, 91 boundary reforms in US 127, 129–30 China Bradford, industrial city, England 84 agriculture-based economic history, racialization 86 foreign trade 180 Brenner, N. Bohai Economic Rim (BER) 192 new state spaces 125, 148, 176 city-regions 104 periodization 248 high-speed rail (HSR) 105 planetary urbanization 3, 9, 239, Open Door policy 183 252 Pearl River Delta (PRD) 9, 13, BRIC states 158 175–99, 230 Brookings Institution 65, 124, 210 reforms and market mechanisms Brookings Metro Center 45 188 Brunet, R. 12–13, 77, 202 retreat from outside world 184 Bureau of Economic Analysis 211 urbanization of 11–13, 101 Bureau of Labor Statistics 211 Yangtze River Delta (YRD) 13 bus and rail systems, local 98 Christaller, W. 91–2 business and industry leaders 20, 130, cities, engines of economic advantage 233–4 65 interest groups in megaregionalism cities a la carte 2 19 City-County Association of ‘business-as-usual’ (BAU) forms of Government (CAG) development 97, 108, 113, 246 Pittsburgh City, Allegheny County, Butler, J. 126, 128 PA 131 city evolution, six stages 6, 37 Cali Baja, cross-border region, city-regional networks, connections US–Mexico border 231–4 across Norden 156–61 California megaregion 100 city-regions 2, 32, 42, 127, 131, 152, Canary Wharf, London 82 157–8, 246 Canton System 177–8 class segregation 76 early Qing Dynasty 193 climate change 40, 97, 106, 113, 214, capitalist development 2, 51, 56–9, 176, 240 194, 248 Clinton Administration 212 carbon dioxide emissions 105 coastal resiliency 215 Carbonell, A. 210 coastal urban areas 60 carbon-neutrality 107–8 Cochrane, A. 10, 41, 122–3 Carson, D. 224–5 colonial heritage 82, 180, 182–3, 193 cartographic representation of Commission of the European megaregional space 15–16, 125, Communities (CEC) 13, 165 133, 163 communicative urbanization 29, 45 Cascadia 21, 224, 231 communist regime in China (1949) Castells, M. 51, 55–7, 77 183–4 The Urban Question 56–7 commuting between cities 61, 69, 85, Census Bureau 69, 210–13, 216–9 110, 114, 211 Central Plains megaregion proposal compact cities 101, 108, 114 100 competitive multi-city regionalism 66 John Harrison and Michael Hoyler - 9781782547907 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/28/2021 08:05:50AM via free access Index 259 competitiveness and megaregions 2, economic globalization 55, 57, 60, 97, 13, 19, 52, 64–6, 68, 107, 125, 158, 106–7, 112 237, 243–4 economic integration 10, 121, 151, 202, conservation of large landscapes 207, 219–23 210, 214 ecosystems, large-scale 98 conservative electoral wave, US, 2010 ecosystems, regulation 114 212 ecumenopolis 53, 252 containerization 60, 83, 217 edge city 29, 101, 107 Copenhagen 152, 157–61 edgeless city 29, 101 Core Based Statistical Area 124 educational apartheid 111 Council of the Baltic Sea States educational attainment 219–20 (CBSS) 161 electrification, efficient intra-urban Council on Competitiveness 65 commuting 59 Councils of Governments (COGs) in endless city 1 US 99, 130, 137 environmental degradation 216 cross-border and transnational environmental impact reduction 114 cooperation 148, 156, 158–9, 162, environmental planning 99 167 environmental protection 100, 104–5, cultural geography of the US 203–6 120 cultural regions of the US 204 environmental sustainability 113, 216 eopolis 6, 37 Danube Basin 163 equity-related goals 105, 111–13 DATAR, French Interministerial ESPON (European Observation Delegation 12, 23 Network for Territorial Davis, M., Planet of Slums 242–3 Development and Cohesion) 149 Department of Transportation 20, Estonia 128 218 EuroAmerican hegemony 176 deregulation of infrastructure in Euro- or meso-regions 148 Norden 155 European Commission 12, 165–6 Detroit 56, 87, 111 European Observation Network for Dhavale, D. 21, 75, 94, 101, 202, Territorial Development and 212 Cohesion (ESPON) 149 diaspora (overseas investment) ‘European school of megaregionalists’, Pearl River Delta (PRD) evolution function-dominant approach 182, 193 15–17 discourse theory 39–40 European Spatial Development Downs, A. 119–21 Perspective (ESDP) 12–14, 19, 21, Doxiadis, C. 252 133, 162, 201–2, 210, 234 Fordist-era predictions 56 European Union on megalopolis 53 large-scale cooperation 100 World Society for Ekistics 54 Neighbourhood Programme 162 structural funds 202 East Asia 54–5, 180 European Union Strategy for the Baltic East Central Illinois Super Region 66 Sea Region (EUSBSR) 163–6 ecolopolis 224 ‘Europe of regions’ 147 economic development 19, 107, 114, Eurozone 154 214, 216–8, 241 EU INTERREG initiative 23, 92, 162, partnerships between metropolitan 165, 168 areas 66 exurban growth 58–63, 98 economic exchange data 211 exurban sprawl 105 John Harrison and Michael Hoyler - 9781782547907 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/28/2021 08:05:50AM via free access 260 Megaregions Faludi, A. 13, 21, 100, 149, 202 global scale 44, 54, 112, 128 Faroe Islands 152 Goldman, L. 38–9 federal and state governments 19, 125, Gottmann, J. 136, 211 ‘Megalopolis’ (map) 34 Federal Emergency Management Megalopolis: The Urbanized Agency (FEMA) 215 Northeastern Seaboard of the Fehmarnbelt 159–60 United States 1–2, 5–8, 29, Florida, R. 9–10, 15, 57, 77, 101, 202, 33–5, 53, 63–4, 121–2, 201–3, 207, 210, 246 210, 242, 251 40 megaregions 17–18 modernist view of urban form 12 The Atlantic City 45 governance 43, 51, 54, 64–6, 99, megaregions and global economy 55 120–22, 130, 134–6, 138, 148, ‘spiky world’ 3, 12 150–51, 160–66, 214 Florida High Tech Corridor Council GPS-tracking information 224 66 Great Depression 59 Fordism 54, 56–7, 59, 60 Greater Copenhagen capital region 159 form-dominant approach 7, 10, 14–17 Greater Paris 76, 80–81, 90, 230 fossil fuel industry 106 Great Lakes Megalopolis 53–4 France 12–3, 80–84 Great Lakes megaregion 53–4, 56, 67, Franklin, B. 126 100, 120, 124, 134–5, 226, 240 freeways 21, 104, 109–10, 114 conflicting spaces of governance Friedman, T. ‘flat world’ thesis 3 119–41, 134–5 Front Range megaregion 100, 216 Great Lakes Metro Chambers Fuller, B. 54 Coalition 67 functional networks 78 Greenbelt Alliance 102 function-dominant approach 7, 9–10, greenbelts 108, 114 13, 15–17, 23 greenhouse gas emissions 97–8, 100–102, 107–8 galactic city 1 green infrastructure 214, 223 Galveston, Texas 205 Greenland 152 Geddes, P. 35–6, 242 Guangdong 177–92, 196 conurbation 5–6 ancient times 180–81 megalopolis 5, 52–3 as ‘Southern Gate’ of China 188–9 gentrification 57, 83, 112, 155 China’s major centre of foreign Georgia Institute of Technology 202, trade, luxury goods 180–81 226 economic indicators (1952−2010) Gibson-Graham, J.K. 121 185 Gilli, F. 80–81 suppressed role in trade 184 GIS-mapping 208 Guangzhou 177, 179–81, 183, 188, 190, Glaeser, E. 44–5, 107 192–3 Triumph of the City 3, 30, 44, 242 Gulf Coast megaregion 100, 201, 205, global city 7, 10, 13, 32, 54, 57, 59, 207–9, 216, 219–21, 230, 240 76–7, 195 global city-region 1, 7–8, 10–11, 13, 18, Halbert, L. 81, 83 29, 32, 175, 192, 195 Hall, P. 8, 13, 23, 32, 35, 54–5, 57, global climate change 106 77–8, 82, 111 global economic integration 10, 240 Hamburg, Germany 159–60 global economic integration zone 13, Hampton Roads, VA 232–4 149, 202 Harvey, D.