Stunning new prescription for America's Great Lakes megaregion.
Nation's Cities Weekly, November, 2006 by Peirce, Neal
The Great Lakes states aren't just key battlegrounds in Tuesday's elections Fixing their imperiled "Rust Belt" economies and hollowed-out cities may be key to America's 21st century fate.
That's the pointed message of a just-released Brookings Institution report on the megaregion of states and communities that rim the shores of the Great Lakes shores and line the Ohio and Mississippi River watersheds, prepared by John C. Austin, Brookings senior fellow and vice president of the Michigan State Board of Education.
Should we worry about this massive marketplace of 97 million people? Isn't it already the generator of 32 percent of America's gross state product, site of a rare constellation of distinguished state universities, birthplace of supercomputers,...
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