{"598246":{"#nid":"598246","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Putting the Megaregions Concept into Practice","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn 2015, with the growing awareness that infrastructure systems have regional impact, Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development partnered with the APA\u0026nbsp;to usher\u0026nbsp;the megaregions concept into planning practice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCo-authored by Catherine Ross and Sarah Smith, The report, \u0026quot;Multimodal Planning at the Megaregional Scale,\u0026quot; reviews 50 years of literature and planning documents to provide a framework for megaregional planning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRead more at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.planning.org\/nationalcenters\/green\/megaregions\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAPA\u0026#39;s website\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and read the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.fhwa.dot.gov\/planning\/megaregions\/reports\/megaregions_report_2017\/fhwahep17091.pdf\u0022\u003Elatest report\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn 2015, the\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development partnered with the APA\u0026nbsp;to usher\u0026nbsp;the megaregions concept into planning practice.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In 2015, the\u00a0Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development partnered with the APA\u00a0to usher\u00a0the megaregions concept into planning practice."}],"uid":"34447","created_gmt":"2017-11-01 19:40:14","changed_gmt":"2017-11-01 19:40:14","author":"bdiacetis3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"598242":{"id":"598242","type":"image","title":"Region_Night","body":null,"created":"1509564267","gmt_created":"2017-11-01 19:24:27","changed":"1509564267","gmt_changed":"2017-11-01 19:24:27","alt":"","file":{"fid":"228059","name":"Greater_S\u00e3o_Paulo_at_night.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Greater_S%C3%A3o_Paulo_at_night.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Greater_S%C3%A3o_Paulo_at_night.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":302321,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Greater_S%C3%A3o_Paulo_at_night.jpg?itok=TI4ELmH7"}}},"media_ids":["598242"],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}