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Liquid city : megalopolis and the contemporary Northeast / John Rennie Short.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Short, John R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metropolitan areas--Middle Atlantic States.
- Metropolitan areas.
- Sociology, Urban--Middle Atlantic States.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Middle Atlantic States--Population.
- Middle Atlantic States.
- Middle Atlantic States--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Megalopolis was the name given to a Peloponnesian city that was founded around 371- 368 BCE. Though planned on a grand scale, the city failed to realize the dreams of the founders, and it declined by the late Roman period. In 1957, the renowned geographer Jean Gottman applied the term in his description of the densely populated area of the northeastern United States that includes the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington.Liquid City is the first book to examine the social, economic, and demographic changes that have taken place in Megalopolis over the past fifty y
- Contents:
- Revisiting megalopolis
- Liquid city
- Population dispersal and concentration
- Economic restructuring
- Immigration
- Patterns of segregation
- County diversity
- Suburban difference
- Urban neighborhoods
- Megalopolis as a globalizing city region
- Regional issues
- Megalopolis and the future.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-176) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-68622-7
- 9786613663160
- 1-136-52746-X
- 1-936331-10-1
- 9781936331109
- OCLC:
- 670412741
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