[1st-mile-nm] Mountain Megas: America's Newest Metropolitan Places and a Federal Partnership to Help Them Prosper

[Tom Johnson]

And important study for those of us interested in the digital urban
environment and communications.  Note reference link to Northern NM on first
page or here: http://BrookingsNorthernNM.notlong.com<http://brookingsnorthernnm.notlong.com/>
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*Mountain Megas: America's Newest Metropolitan Places and a Federal
Partnership to Help Them Prosper [pdf]*

 http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2008/0720_mountainmegas_sarzynski.aspx
In the years after the Civil War, the population of the intermountain West
began to boom as people moved across the Mississippi River for new
opportunities as homesteaders, prospectors, and enterprising dry goods
merchants. 130 years later or so, it appears that this region of the United
States is experiencing yet another renaissance. This report from the
Brookings Institution's "Blueprint for American Prosperity" series takes a
close look at the growth this region has experienced in recent years.
Written by Robert E. Lang, Andrea Sarzynski, and Mark Muro, the report is
divided into six chapters, including "Megapolitan Development in the
Intermountain West" and "Forging a New Federal-Mega Agenda for the
Intermountain West". Visitors can also avail themselves of a brief executive
summary if they are in a hurry, and they may also wish to pay particular
attention to the report's conclusions as well.

-- tj
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J. T. Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
www.analyticjournalism.com
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existing model obsolete."
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