Megaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness

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.