Great Lakes Megalopolis

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Detroit is the Capital City!

The Great Lakes Megalopolis includes the group of metropolitan areas mainly within the Midwestern United States surrounding the Great Lakes region and the Southern Ontario area of Canada, but it also includes parts of Pennsylvania, New York, and Quebec. The region extends from the Milwaukee–Chicago corridor to the Detroit–Toronto corridor, and includes Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, Ottawa, Buffalo, Rochester and reaches Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Kansas City. The region had an estimated population of 54 million for the 2000 Census and is projected to reach about 63 million by 2025


From Time Magazine - 1966

Another area is growing even faster, and will ultimately pose bigger problems. This is the potential "Great Lakes Megalopolis," which will soon stretch without interruption from Pittsburgh to Chicago, by the year 2000 will contain a population of 45 million. Fortunately, in the opinion of City Planner Constantinos Doxiadis, the great heartland megalopolis has a natural focus and headquarters in Detroit —if the city will only rise to the challenge.

As Doxiadis projects it, Greater Detroit will eventually cover 23,000 sq. mi., stretch 150 miles long, 220 miles wide, and include 37 counties: 25 in Michigan, nine in Ohio and three in Canada. The area will have a population of 15 million centered in the Motor City but with secondary concentrations at Port Huron, 55 miles to the northeast, Toledo, Flint, Saginaw, Grand Rapids, Lansing and Ann Arbor.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...#ixzz1GabvfAt9

Map: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...egaregions.png

Thoughts? Is this still relevant? The midwest megalopolis is the largest such region in the country, and would pose considerable influence on the country as a whole.

Remember the midwest is least prone to natural disaster too...the coasts will be swallowed evenutally!

Expanded Metro Detroit is only a 1/3 of Doxiadis' prediction, but the total region is 54 million [[2000), he predicted 45 million [[2000)