By 2060, the American South Could Be Three Times as Urbanized

[mota bhai 2,675]

Here comes Charlanta the Gargantua.

LAURA BLISS @laura__bliss

Jul 25, 2014

New predictions map the future spread of urban sprawl in Dixie, and it is immense. Basing their model on past growth patterns and locations of existing road networks, researchers at North Carolina State University projected the region’s expansion decades into the future. According to their forecast, the Southern urban footprint is expected to grow 101 percent to 192 percent.

Take a look at urban land cover in the South as of 2009:

Here's what that'll look like by 2060:

The South's explosive population growth over the past 60 years can only be expected to continue, the researchers report. And more likely than not, so will its typical development pattern of sprawling, automobile-dependent suburbs. Planners and city leaders should start acting now to managing infrastructure and natural resources in the area.

As our own Richard Florida indicated in March, the mega-region dubbed Char-lanta already has an economy larger than South Korea's, with more than a trillion dollars in output. We wonder which country's GNP it'll outsize by 2060, when it looks like this crazy fretwork:

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2014/07/by-2060-the-american-south-could-be-three-times-as-urbanized/375017/

[lostinblue 1,989]

I read on here that Florida will be under water at least part of it.....I swear you are trying to unload some Florida property . How can you sleep at night... You are showing Florida could be booming,,,,,,We have been pretty well assured that global warming will be causing the seas to rise in just a few years,....

[mota bhai 2,675]

Florida will not go underwater even if it goes below sea level.

[eieio 1,594]

And more likely than not, so will its typical development pattern of sprawling, automobile-dependent suburbs

Excellent! I can't stand those green loving hippy whack jobs that want everyone to live in cramped high rises.