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[2] [better source needed] Historically, it is the modernized term offered to the geography, urban planning, and related communities via the America 2050 [3] [1] initiative to describe a group of two or more roughly adjacent metropolitan areas that, through commonality of systems—e.g., of transport, economy, resources, and ecologies ...
The author outlines a world in which the growing US population reaches four hundred million by 2050. He argues that the US will become more diverse (with a trend towards ethnic/racial mixing) and more competitive, and he predicts that the US will experience continual economic growth that advances the population's standard of living.
In 2005, the Regional Plan Association launched its program, America 2050, which outlined 11 megaregions of the United States, including a "Northern California Megaregion." [11] This proposed region extended from Monterey to Sonoma County and from Fresno to Reno, Nevada.
The planned restart of Three Mile Island is a step forward for nuclear power, but the U.S. needs to deploy new plants to keep up with rising electricity demand, one of the nation’s top nuclear ...
[8] [9] [10] The America 2050 project identified 11 Megaregions of the United States, including the Great Lakes Megalopolis. [11] The Canadian part of the region is also referred to as the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, and the densest part in Southern Ontario has long been known as the Golden Horseshoe. [citation needed]
This is a list of the fifty most populous metropolitan areas in North America. Where available, it uses official definitions of metropolitan areas based on the concept of a single urban core and its immediate surroundings, as opposed to polycentric conurbations. These definitions vary from country to country.
America’s Youngest Outcasts 2010 documents the numbers of homeless children in every state and ranks the states from 1 (best) to 50 (worst) using data and research on the extent of child homelessness, child well-being, risk for child homelessness, and state planning and policy activities.
US stocks have been slumping heading into the first full-on week of 2025. In the past five trading sessions, the S&P 500 is down more than 1.5%, while the Nasdaq Composite is off nearly 2%.