TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ross, Catherine L.
TI  - Megaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness
SN  - 9781597265867
U1  - 307.12 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Island Press
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Planned communities - Environmental aspects
N1  - Part I: Spatial Planning and Defining the Megaregion
1.	Scale matters : rethinking planning approaches across jurisdictional and sectoral boundaries / Cheryl K. Contant and Karen Leone de Nie 
2.	The megalopolis, the blue banana, and global economic integration zones in European planning thought / Andres Faludi 
3.	Spatial planning in Asia : planning and developing megacities and megaregions / Jiawen Yang 
4.	Identifying megaregions in the United States : implications for infrastructure investment / Catherine L. Ross and Myungje Woo 

Part II: Planning and Designing for Livable Megaregions
5.	Megaregions or megasprawls? : issues of density, urban design, and quality growth / Tridib Banerjee
6.	Megapolitan America : defining and applying a new geography / Robert E. Lang and Arthur C. Nelson
7.	The imperative of growth, the rhetoric of sustainability : the divergence of the ecoregion and the global megaregion / Scott Campbell
8.	Mobility in the megaregion / Catherine L. Ross, Jason Barringer, and Adjo A. Amekudzi
9.	Investing in megaregion transportation systems : institutional challenges and opportunities / William D. Ankner and Michael D. Meyer
10.	Social equity and the challenge of distressed places / Norman Fainstein and Susan S. Fainstein

Part III: Spatial Planning for a Future America
11.	Novel spatial formats : megaregions and global intercity geographies / Saskia Sassen 
12.	Governing American metropolitan areas : spatial policy and regional governance / Myron Orfield and Thomas F. Luce, Jr 
13.	The megaregion and the future of American planning / Catherine L. Ross and Jessica L.H. Doyle
ER  -