America 2050

Our friends at the Women's Transportation Seminar North Carolina recently released the final report on the October 2007 day-long summit on East Coast High Speed Rail. The Summit gathered speakers we've been working with in the Northeast including Neal Peirce of Citistates, Drew Galloway of Amtrak, Karen Rae of NYS DOT, Anne Stubbs of CONEG, and Mort Downey of PBConsult with counterparts in the Southeast, exploring the question of whether there's a future for high speed rail in the Piedmont Atlantic megaregion.

Download the Summit Summary here.

Elected officials and representatives from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee convened on January 29 and 30, 2006, for the Think Global, Act Regional Symposium in Atlanta. The attendees included federal and state legislators, mayors, public- and private-sector representatives, academics, and other community leaders. Together, they composed a diverse and enthusiastic audience who came to hear from U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, City of Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, and others about a new wave of multi-state regionalism, called megaregions. The event, organized by Georgia Tech's Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development and the City and Regional Planning program, began a dialogue focusing on opportunities for public- and private-sector groups in the southeastern states to work together.

For more information about the Think Global, Act Regional Symposium visit: http://www.cqgrd.gatech.edu/megaregions/

Georgia Tech College of Architecture (Spring 2005) Download the report