Megalopolis 50 years on: The transformation of a city region

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 344-367

  Vicino, Thomas J ^a   Hanlon, Bernadette ^b   Short, John Rennie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cities and suburbs; Megalopolis; Urban restructuring

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECENTRALIZATION; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 34250845859     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2007.00728.x     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Beauregard, R.A. (1989) Atop the urban hierarchy. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ.
2. Beauregard, R.A. (2003) Voices of decline: The postwar fate of U.S. cities. Second edition, Routledge, New York.
3. Benton-Short, L., M. Price and S. Friedman (2005) Globalization from below: The ranking of global immigrant cities. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29, 945-59.
4. Bernard, R.M. and B.R. Rice (1984) Sunbelt cities: Politics and growth since World War II. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX.
5. Berry, B.J.L. and F.E. Horton (1970) Geographic perspectives on urban systems. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
6. Berry, B.J.L. and J.D. Kasarda (1977) Contemporary urban ecology. Macmillan, New York
7. Berry, B.J.L. and P.H. Rees (1969) The factorial ecology of Calcutta. The American Journal of Sociology 74. 5, 445-91.
8. Bogue, D. (1951) State economic areas. US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
9. Cooper, D.R. and P.S. Schindler (2003) Business research methods. Eighth edition, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, New York.
10. Davies, W.K.D. (1984) Factorial ecology. Gower Press, Aldershot.
11. Davies, W.K.D. and R.A. Murdie (1993) Measuring the social ecology of cities. In L.S. Bourne and D.F. Ley (eds.), The changing social geography of Canadian cities, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston.
12. Dear, M. (ed.) (2001) From Chicago to LA: Making sense of urban theory. Russell Sage, New York.
13. Dear, M. and S. Flusty (eds.) (2002) The spaces of postmodernity: A reader in human geography. Blackwell, Oxford.
14. Derudder, B., P.J. Taylor, F. Witlox and G. Catalano (2003) Hierarchical tendencies and regional patterns in the world city network: A global urban analysis of 234 cities. Regional Studies 37. 9, 875-86.
15. Ellin, N. (2000) Postmodern urbanism. Princeton Architectural Press, New York.
16. Frey, W.H. (2003) Melting pot suburbs: A study of suburban diversity. In B. Katz and R.E. Lang (eds.), Redefining urban and suburban America: evidence from census 2000, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC.
17. Friedmann, J. (2005) China's urban transition. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
18. Garreau, J. (1991) Edge city: Life on the new frontier. Doubleday, New York.
19. Gottmann, J. (1957) Megalopolis or the urbanization of the Northeastern seaboard. Economic Geography 33. 3, 189-200.
20. Gottmann, J. (1961) Megalopolis: The urbanized Northeastern seaboard of the United States. Twentieth Century Fund, New York.
21. Gottmann, J. (1987) Megalopolis revisited: 25 years later. The University of Maryland Institute for Urban Studies, College Park, MD.
22. Hanlon, B., T.J. Vicino and J.R. Short (2006) The new metropolitan reality: Rethinking the traditional model in the US. Urban Studies 43. 12, 2129-43.
23. Hayden, D. (2003) Building suburbia: Green fields and urban growth: 1820 to 2000. Pantheon Books, New York.
24. Hudnut III, W.H. (2003) Halfway to everywhere: A portrait of America's first-tier suburbs. Urban Land Institute, Washington, DC.
25. Jackson, K.T. (1985) Crabgrass frontier: The suburbanization of the United States. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
26. Jargowsky, P.A. (1997) Poverty and place: Ghettos, barrios, and the American city. Russell Sage Foundation, New York.
27. Jargowsky, P.A. (2003) Stunning progress, hidden problems: The dramatic decline of concentrated poverty in the 1990s. Living cities census series. Metropolitan Policy Program. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC.
28. Katz, B. and R.E. Lang (eds.) (2003) Redefining urban and suburban America: Evidence from census 2000. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC.
29. Keil, R. (1998) Los Angeles: Globalization, urbanization, and social struggles. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester.
30. Kitchen, P. (2002) Identifying dimensions of urban social change in Dublin - 1986 to 1996. Irish Geography 35. 2, 156-74.
31. Kirp, D.L., J.P. Dwyer and L.A. Rosenthal (1995) Our town: Race, housing and the soul of suburbia. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ.
32. Knox, P.L. (1991) The restless urban landscape: Economic and sociocultural change and the transformation of metropolitan Washington, DC. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 81. 22, 181-209.
33. Knox, P.L. and P.J. Taylor (eds.) (1995) World cities in a world-network. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
34. Laguerre, M.S. (2004) Urban multiculturalism and globalization in New York City: An analysis of diasporic temporalities. Palgrave, London.
35. Lang, R.E. (2003) Edgeless cities: Exploring the elusive metropolis. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC.
36. Logan, J. and T. Swanstrom (eds.) (1990) Beyond city limits: Urban policy and economic restructuring in comparative perspective. Temple University Press, Philadelphia.
37. Lucy, W.H. and D.L. Phillips (2000) Confronting suburban decline: strategic planning for metropolitan renewal. Island Press, Washington, DC.
38. Lucy, W.H. and D.L. Phillips (2006) Tomorrow's cities, tomorrow's suburbs. American Planning Association Press, Chicago.
39. Massey, D. and N.A. Denton (1993) American apartheid: Segregation and the making of the underclass. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
40. Mikelbank, B.A. (2004) A typology of U.S. suburban places. Housing Policy Debate 15. 4, 935-64.
41. Morrill, R. (2006) Classic map revisited: The growth of Megalopolis. Professional Geographer 58. 2, 155-60.
42. Muller, T. (1993) Immigrants and the American city. New York University Press, New York.
43. Murdie, R. (1969) Factorial ecology of metropolitan Toronto, 1951-1961. Research Paper No. 116, Department of Geography, University of Chicago.
44. Orfield, M. (2002) American metropolitics: The new suburban reality. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC.
45. Perle, E.D. (1981) Perspectives on the changing ecological structure of suburbia. Urban Geography 2. 3, 237-54.
46. Sassen, S. (1991) The global city: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
47. Scott, A.J. (ed.) (2001) Global city regions. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
48. Scott, A.J. and E.W. Soja (eds.) (1996) The city: Los Angeles and the urban theory at the end of the twentieth century. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
49. Shevky, E. and Q. Bell (1955) Social area analysis: Theory and illustrative application and computational procedure. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.
50. Short, J.R. (2004) Global metropolitan: Globalizing cities in a capitalist world. Routledge, London.
51. Short, J.R. (2006) Urban theory: A critical assessment. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
52. Soja, E.W. (2000) Postmetropolis: Critical studies of cities and regions. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.
53. Swanstrom, T., C. Casey, R. Flack and P. Dreier (2004) Pulling apart: economic segregation among suburbs and central cities in major metropolitan areas. Living Cities Census Series, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC.
54. Taylor, P.J. (2004) World city network: A global urban analysis. Routledge, New York.
55. Taylor, P.J., G. Catalano and D.R.F. Walker (2002) Exploratory analysis of the world city network. Urban Studies 39. 13, 2377-94.
56. Taylor, P.J. and B. Derudder (2004) Porous Europe: European cities in global urban arenas. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 95. 5, 527-38.
57. Taylor, P.J. and M. Hoyler (2000) The spatial order of European cities under conditions of contemporary globalization. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 91. 2, 176-89.
58. Waldinger, R. (2001) Strangers at the gates: New immigrants in urban America. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
59. Wilson, W.J. (1987) The truly disadvantaged: The inner city, the underclass, and public policy. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
60. Wyly, E.K. (1999) Continuity and change in the restless urban landscape. Economic Geography 75, 309-38.