The Liquid City of Megalopolis

Bridge, Gary (editor) / Watson, Sophie (editor) / Rennie Short, John (author)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 26-37

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

2011-02-25

12 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch3

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

Megalopolis, home ‐ immigration from overseas , Megalopolis, densest urban agglomeration in the US ‐ one of the largest city regions in the world , Megalopolis as political entity ‐ housing and job markets, metro area to another , economic growth and role of government ‐ local, state and federal level , revalorization of Megalopolis ‐ capitalism, systems in motion , US, 10 Megalopolitan regions ‐ clustered networks of metropolitan regions , liquid city of Megalopolis ‐ Zygmunt Bauman's, life under conditions of uncertainty as “liquid life” , Megalopolis, and economic restructuring ‐ decline of manufacturing, services , Megalopolis revisited, and urban change ‐ dialectic flows, places of fixed investment and concentration , US census, metropolitan counties ‐ to cities, population density and population growth