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Sep 1969
Development Issues and Strategies
The urbanized northeastern seaboard of the United States, with its immediate hinterland — called the Atlantic Region for the purposes of this paper — is the world’s largest urban cluster.
In 1966, it had 47.1 million people (nearly 22 percent of the population of North America) within 126,000 square miles — only 1.3 percent of the land area of the United States and Canada. Projections indicate that over the next half-century the Atlantic Region’s share of the continental population will shrink by only a few percentage points while in absolute terms its population will nearly double. This prospect raises two related issues:
The purpose of this paper is, then, to sketch a portrait of the Atlantic Region spotlighting these issues, and to establish a framework for subsequent discussion of impending development decisions.
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