America 2050

 March 6-10, 2006 Three teams of graduate planning students from the University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas and University of Michigan, gathered this month for a week-long workshop on megaregion planning with a faculty of esteemed European planners in Madrid, Spain. The student teams were engaged in urban planning, architecture or engineering courses at their respective universities, exploring the emergence of megaregions in the Northeast, the Texas Triangle and the Great Lakes. Working in groups, they began the week with presentations that defined their megaregions, analyzing demographic and economic trends, and proposed potential strategies to address challenges encountered at the megaregional scale.