America 2050 will join the U.S. High Speed Rail Association at its conference June 17-18 at Hilton Universal City, in Los Angeles, California. Click here for more information on speakers and the agenda and here to register.
Southern California
With some of the largest ports in the nation, the economy of Southern California is closely tied to the logistics and goods movement industry. This region is taking aggressive action to build infrastructure that enhances its role as a global gateway while providing opportunities for its fast growing native-born and immigrant populations. Location: Southern California / Nevada from the border with Mexico to Santa Barbara and east to Las Vegas
Principal Cities: Los Angeles, San Diego, Anaheim, Long Beach, Las Vegas
Population 2000: 21,858,662
Percent of U.S. Population: 8%
Population 2025: 28,692,923
Projected Growth: 31%
2005 GDP: $1,036,000,000,000
Percent of US GDP: 7%
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America 2050 will join the U.S. High Speed Rail Association at its conference June 17-18 at Hilton Universal City, in Los Angeles, California. Click here for more information on speakers and the agenda and here to register.
Urban Growth Seminar at University of Southern California, Los Angeles
When: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 : 12:15pm
Location: University Park Campus, Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL), Room 101
Sponsored
By:
USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development
Mark Pisano, Professor of Urban Planning, SPPD and Petra Todorovich, Director, America 2050. Professor Tridib Banerjee will be the discussant.
Please contact mbuchmei@usc.edu for more information.
This is a part of the Urban Growth Seminar series sponsored by the School for Policy, Planning and Development.
Since 2007, America 2050 has held megaregion forums in seven of America's eleven megaregions nation-wide. There forums were held as part of a "Rebuilding and Renewing America" campaign, which aimed to build support for the infrastructure investments we need to guide America toward a sustainable and prosperous future. The forums aimed to achieve three goals:
Download the Summary of Megaregion Forums.
Download a PowerPoint about the Forums.
- Build support around the country for an ambitious national infrastructure plan in the areas of transportation, energy, and water.
- Identify and prioritize the key infrastructure priorities in the megaregions, which can act as building blocks to a national plan.
- Create megaregion coalitions to support these megaregion priorities and begin coordinating with each other.
Download the Summary of Megaregion Forums.
Download a PowerPoint about the Forums.
View photos from the America 2050 Forum in Los Angeles, California, held on June 19, 2009. Speakers included Polly Trottenberg, Kathleen Brown, CA Senator Alan Lowenthal, NV Assemblyman Tick Segerblom, John Fielder, Neal Schmale, Sunne Wright McPeak, Councilwoman Leslie Daigle, Paul Rosenstiel and many others.
LA Forum Agenda.pdf
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Driving and Parking Directions.doc
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You are welcome to register on-site!
Driving and Parking Directions.doc
Join the Southwest megaregion's business, civic, government, and academic leaders on June 19 as they address the pressing issues of how to govern and finance the major infrastructure systems of the Southwest Megaregion (encompassing Southern California, the Las Vegas metropolitan area and Baja California), as part of a strategy to rebuild the region's economy for robust, equitable and sustainable growth.
Keynote Speakers
John R. Fielder, President, Southern California Edison
Polly Trottenberg, Executive Director, Building America's Future
Featured Speakers
Tom Sayles, Vice President of Government & Community Relations, USC
Alan Lowenthal, Senator, California State Senate
Petra Todorovich, Director, America 2050
Councilman Steve Wolfson, City of Las Vegas, NV
Assemblyman Richard Sagermoon, Nevada State Assembly
Mark Pisano, Co-Chair and West Coast Director, America 2050
Bob Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association & Co-Chair, America 2050
John Kirlin, Executive Director, Delta Vision Foundation
Timothy F. Brick, Chairman, Board of Directors, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Mike Peevey, President, California Public Utilities Commission
Neal Schmale, COO, Sempra Energy
Don Paul, Director, USC Energy Institute
Michael Keston, Chairman & CEO, KFG Investment Company
Richard Little, Director, USC Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy
Kathleen Brown, Head of Public Finance-Western Region, Goldman Sachs & Co.
Brian Corley, Executive Director - Transportation/Infrastructure Advisory Group, JP Morgan LA Office
Paul Rosenstiel, Partner, De La Rosa & Co. & former CA Deputy Treasurer
Marguerite Young, Director-Public Pension Fund Relations, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Doug Failing, Director - District 7, California DOT
Bev Perry, Assistant Director, USC Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise
Sunne Wright McPeak, President & CEO, CA Emerging Technologies Fund
The forum will include roundtable participant discussions to identify key questions:
- What are the key areas of infrastructure on which the Southwest Megaregion must work together?
- How do we move the SW Megaregion forward in these areas?
- Should there be the institutional capacity to take this forward?
- What should be the federal role in advancing this agenda?
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By Chris Benner, University of California, Davis and Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California.
Since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, a growing regional equity movement has recognized the consequences of urban sprawl and regional causes of poverty and successfully built political power at the scale of metropolitan region. Now, with increasing attention to social and economic factors at the megaregion scale, this paper asks whether equity proponents must shift their attention outward and upward.
By Chris Benner, University of California, Davis and Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California.
Since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, a growing regional equity movement has recognized the consequences of urban sprawl and regional causes of poverty and successfully built political power at the scale of metropolitan region. Now, with increasing attention to social and economic factors at the megaregion scale, this paper asks whether equity proponents must shift their attention outward and upward.
Continue reading Fractures and Faultlines: Growth and Equity in California's Megaregions.
"Gas is $4 a gallon and we still have congestion" said Jim Spering, Solano County Supervisor in California recognizing that clogged roadways and reduced productivity must be addressed at a much larger scale. More than one hundred leading transportation experts from the Bay and Sacramento corridor gathered on Thursday, April 10th, to explore the possibility of coordinating transportation plans at the megaregion scale in an attempt to attract funding for projects.
In a parallel effort, the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation and Imperial Valley EDC received a $225,000 grant to spearhead a study that aims to develop a megaregion framework for global competition. The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration awarded the grant, which will cover the two southern California counties and the Northern Baja California, Mexico region.
Click below for the articles:
'Mega-region touted for transit - TheReporter.Com
"EDCs Receive $225,000 Grant for Mega-Region Initiative - International Business Times
March 19-21: Healdsburg, CA: Regional Plan Association and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy gathered planners and scholars from the U.S. and China for a two-day retreat to foster academic dialogue on megaregion planning. RPA and Lincoln commissioned four papers on two topics: (1) comparative studies of Asian megaregions and (2) social equity implications of megaregion planning. The forum featured presentations from the authors, followed by responses and discussions. Read more about the papers and download the PowerPoint presentations in the extended entry.
Image: Northern and Southern California Megaregions, Benner and Pastor (2008)
Image: Northern and Southern California Megaregions, Benner and Pastor (2008)
Continue reading America 2050 Research Seminar on Megaregions.
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