Megapolitan America
This book is part planning manual, part atlas, part reference guide, part call to action—all about the most important economic and social development taking place in the country today. Arthur Nelson and Robert Lang’s description of the nation’s "megapolitan" regions will change the way we think of the economy and how we all have come to live. Let’s hope it also changes the way we act in the future.-Bill Bishop, author of The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us ApartThis is an extraordinary book. It completely and--in my largely lay judgment--correctly reorients our thinking about where our cities and communities are going both physically and in terms of actual living. What an extraordinary contribution to our thinking on these issues. This should be required reading--and I rarely say that--for every governor, mayor, legislator, city council member, Chamber of Commerce member, and, indeed, citizen! --Michael K. Young, President, University of Washington