CHAPTER ELEVEN
REGIONAL ISSUES
The issues facing this large, liquid metropolis are many and varied. Although each city, county, and municipality faces unique problems associated with its particular location, some issues run across these boundaries. In this chapter I want to consider four: sprawl, transportation, affordable housing, and the metropolitan fragmentation of government.
SPRAWL
By sprawl I mean the liquid suburban expansion that has spread out across the region in a low-density, largely unplanned fashion. Galster et al. (2001) show that urban areas in Megalopolis have some of the lowest amounts of sprawl, with New York, Philadelphia, and Boston having the lowest figures among all urban areas in the United States. Atlanta and Miami, ...
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