This report, recently released by planning faculty at the University of Michigan asks three main questions: Why plan for megaregions? What are appropriate methods for planning at the megaregion scale? And when is the megaregion a useful scale for policy planning?
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February 18, 2007
New Report: Planning for Megaregions in the United States
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