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A new book out on the megapolitan watch: Megapolitan America
I have not read it, at least not yet, but presume it follows from the authors' Planning article a few years ago with the same theme. In it, the Pittsburgh/Cleveland megapolitan region is named the "Steel Corridor". OK, I guess. I am sure others would prefer DNA-pike or something like that. That and Cincinnati/Columbus is the region called the Ohio Valley. Maybe we should just refer to ourselves as the Greater Upper Ohio Valley Agglomeration (or GUOVA? it almost works). I will stick with Cleveburgh as the megapolitan region that has the most operational reality to it today.
I have not read it, at least not yet, but presume it follows from the authors' Planning article a few years ago with the same theme. In it, the Pittsburgh/Cleveland megapolitan region is named the "Steel Corridor". OK, I guess. I am sure others would prefer DNA-pike or something like that. That and Cincinnati/Columbus is the region called the Ohio Valley. Maybe we should just refer to ourselves as the Greater Upper Ohio Valley Agglomeration (or GUOVA? it almost works). I will stick with Cleveburgh as the megapolitan region that has the most operational reality to it today.
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At 59 bucks, I will probably wait for the movie. Not a book for the masses, I take it.
You know... the Quartermasterin me just hates that I did not think of that nom de plume.
I don't really get it. The "Steel Corridor"? Assuming that this book is going for some kind of contemporary analysis which would help to illuminate possible directions for the future, it's a bizarrely anachronistic name. Not that there's no steel production at all, of course, but it's a strange thing to fixate on.
Now, now.. Steely McBeam was a contemporary character as well.
Pittsland or nothing.
"GUOVA: It almost works" also works as a slogan.
Still rootin' for Westsylvania. Chris....did you see the insert in the Sunday paper two weeks ago on energy? It highlighted Pittsburgh's long, historic role in energy production like coal, nuclear, gas, oil, and more like you wrote about several months ago. Wondered if had a hand in that.
West-By-God-Cleveburghland: the Power of 32?
Occupy Cleveburgh is in the werks, discussed it today.
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