GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jean Gottmann, Pearl River Delta, Urban Renewal

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne Godlewska

Document Summary

The place where the phenomenon was first described was the north eastern seaboard. It includes five of the largest metropolitan areas in the united states: boston, new york, Note here that both the political and financial capitals of the us are located in. Certainly new york is the banking and industrial capital of the world and any really big. New york"s global importance was recognized by the 9/11 attacks on the world trade. Boston, philadelphia, connecticut, new jersey, delaware and maryland are big centres. Sometime in the l960s a new kind of urban development began to be recognized. It was best described in the publication of a french geographer working at that time in. What he described was megalopolis (now also known as boswash or main street of the. Nation of the us from s. new hampshire to n. virginia and from the atlantic ocean to the. Philadelphia, baltimore, and washington (all in the several millions)