THE NEW Megalopolis Our focus on cities is wrong. Growth and innovation come from new urban corridors. China is not the world's Most ferocious new competitor Economic - the exploding east - coast corridor, from Beijing to Shanghai, is. India as a whole is not high-tech industries Developing and attracting jobs, but the booming mega-region stretching from Bangalore to Hyderabad is. Across the world, printing fact do not spur Growth nation so much as dynamic region-modern version of the original "Megalopolis," a term coined by the Boston-New York-sprawling Economic power Washington corridor. The New Megas are the real Economic Organizing units of the world and the major sources of global wealth, attracting a large share of its talent and tạo The Most innovation. They take shape as powerful complexes of multiple cities and suburbs, stretching across national borders-often Do forming a VAST expanse of trade, transport, communications, and talent. Yet, despite the fact rằng rise of vùng Đã apparent for more than a decade, no one has thập systematic information on add-not the World Bank, not the IMF, not the United Nation, not the global consulting Firms. That's why a team of geographers set about building a world map of the New Megas shaped by satellite images of the world at night, using light to define the outlines of emissions each region, and additional print data như population and economic categories Growth relative to chart chúng Strengths and dynamism peak. The result is the topographical map you see here. The map nó clear global economy takes shape rằng around 20 great perhaps' Megas-half in the United States and the rest scattered throughout the world. These region are home to just 10 percent of total world population, 660 million people, but half of all Economic activity tạo, two thirds of world-class scientific activity, and three quarters of global innovations. The great urbanologist Jane Jacobs was the first to describe why megalopolises grow. When People migrate to one place, all trở chúng more productive. And the place Itself Becomes much more productive, vì Collective creativity Grows exponentially. Ideas flow more Freely, are honed more sharply, and can be put Into practice more Quickly. There is, Tuy nhiên, a tipping point. The Forces of price and congestion begin pushing away from the center người. But make no mistake; this has nothing to do with the "decentralization of work," as many have argued. The huge Economic Advantages of clustering still guide the process, why second mà near big cities or cities emerge in the corridors giữa added, not in the middle of nowhere. The first region to Achieve status and still the biggest Mega Mega term Economic printing is the Boston-to-Washington corridor. In 1961 it was home to about 32 million People; today its population to 55 million has Risen, 17 percent of all coal more Americans. The region generates $ 242.5 trillion print Economic activity, making it the world's fourth largest economy, bigger or the United Kingdom coal France. Next print line is Chi-Pitts, the great Midwestern running from Chicago to Detroit Mega, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh, with $ 242.3 trillion Economic activity print. Three of the power centers of the US economy beyond American borders stretch thậm: So-Cal runs from Los Angeles to San Diego across the Mexican borders to Tijuano; Tor-Buff-Chester sprawls from Toronto to Rochester, and Cascadia from Portland, Oregon, to Vancouver. aside from the island-bound Financial Center of Greater London, Europe's major engines do not rely on Economic borders to define Themselves old. The Euro-Lowlands cuts across four nations: the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and France. The Euro-Sunbelt stretches from Barcelona to Marscille, attracting người Firms with competitive and Costs and the Mediterranean lifestyle. Japan is less a country than a network of linked Mega-Regions, anchored by Greater Tokyo: indeed, a close look at the light-emissions map shows three major Megas its mà sew well be super-Mega blurring into one of more coal 100 million people. While power advanced Mega-Regions Economies, Emerging chúng Literally define the nations. If you Megas its unaligned, China would be virtually as an Economic nghĩa category. What matters are Shang-King (Shanghai to Nanjing), with more 50 million người coal; Hong-Zen (Hong Kong to Shenzhen), 40 million; Greater Beijing, 36 million. These three account for nhất of Chinese Megas Economic output, Attract Most of its talent, and generate the great Majority of its innovations. Instead of Helping to spread the technology of Economic opportunity and lift many more boats, economic power is concentrating in a small number of key vùng. It's time for Political and economic Leadership to wake up to this new reality. Makes little sense to dwell it on Countries anymore, khi real engines of survival innovation and Growth are the New Megas.
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