{"65876":{"#nid":"65876","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Megaregions on course to recast blueprints for U.S. housing market: Catherine Ross explains why","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe world is flat, the economy is global, and on any given day you\u0027re as likely to speak to a call center in India or the Philippines as you are to visit your grocery store. The world\u0027s boundaries have blurred, but at the same time the easy and immediate communication of a Twitter or Facebook makes the planet feel smaller and more connected. Dr. Catherine Ross, editor of \u0022Megaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness,\u0022 a collection of essays about urban planning, puts it like this: \u0022If one of us sneezes, everyone catches a cold.\u0022 Ross, who is director of the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development at Georgia Tech, has watched the concept of \u0022megaregions\u0022 emerge over the last five years. The early work focused on the idea of creating \u0022central cities\u0022 as an impetus to global transactions, but she said it soon became clear that the term didn\u0027t go far enough in conveying the \u0022subtle metaphorical merging of the continents.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27215","created_gmt":"2011-04-29 16:08:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:24:27","author":"Mike Alberghini","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"dual-degree master\u0027s program","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.ky3.com\/features\/sc-cons-0414-re-matters-20110415,0,3166252.column","dateline":{"date":"2011-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"648","name":"catherine ross"},{"id":"12994","name":"housing market"},{"id":"171","name":"megaregions"}],"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":""}}}