{"73436":{"#nid":"73436","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Review: Megaregions, Edited by Catherine L. Ross","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMegaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness\u003C\/em\u003E, edited by Dr. Catherine L. Ross, was reviewed by Aaron Renn, an urban success strategist focusing on the overlooked cities of the Midwest. Renn applauds the concept of megaregions as a \u0022convenient abstraction for federal level thinkers to make sense out of the large number of diverse metro areas in America\u0022 while noting that \u0022megaregions are necessary purely as a level of hierarchy, even if they prove to be a phantom level.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cem\u003EMegaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness\u003C\/em\u003E, edited by Dr. Catherine L. Ross, was reviewed by Aaron Renn, an urban success strategist focusing on the overlooked cities of the Midwest.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Book edited by Ross reviewed by urban strategist."}],"uid":"27160","created_gmt":"2009-12-07 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:46","author":"Michelle Marcus","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-12-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-12-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.urbanophile.com\/2009\/12\/06\/review-megaregions-edited-by-catherine-l-ross\/","title":"Full Article"}],"groups":[{"id":"1260","name":"CQGRD - Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EMichelle Marcus\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECOA- CQGRD\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=mmarcus7\u0022\u003EContact Michelle Marcus\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michelle.marcus@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}