ABSTRACT
Megalopolis is a region spanning 600 miles from north of Richmond in Virginia to just north of Portland in Maine and from the shores of the Northern Atlantic to the Appalachians. It includes the metropolitan areas of Washington-Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, covers 52,000 square miles and contains 49 million people. It is the densest urban agglomeration in the US, one of the largest city regions in the world, an important element in the national economy and a vital hub in a globalizing world. Large city regions around the world, like Megalopolis, are the principal hubs of economic and cultural globalization (Figure 11.1).
