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Megaregions, Large Landscapes, and Americas Great Outdoors: a Planning Synthesis Wildlands and Woodlands Partnership Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA December 8, 2010 Armando Carbonell Chairman, Department of Planning and Urban Form Lincoln

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Megaregions, Large Landscapes, and America’s Great Outdoors: a Planning Synthesis

Wildlands and Woodlands Partnership Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA December 8, 2010 Armando Carbonell Chairman, Department of Planning and Urban Form Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

www.lincolninst.edu

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Precedents and early insights …

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The Blue Banana

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European Mega-regions and Territorial Cohesion

Credit: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

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U.S. Population Change 2005-2050

Credit: University of Pennsylvania

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Rural Areas Projected to Experience Increased Development, 2000-2030

Source: USFS Open Space Strategy

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Emerging U.S. Megaregions

Credit: University of Pennsylvania

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  • Challenges occur at

scale greater than metropolitan region

  • Large infrastructure

systems

  • Large natural systems
  • Building blocks to a

national plan

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Why Megaregions?

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Northeast Megaregion

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Gottmann’s Megalopolis

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Northeast Megaregion Ecostructure

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Smart Growth vs. Trend Growth

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Vision : Dense Hubs connected by high-speed transport

Population density per square mile Source: U.S. Census

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National Resources Planning Board and the Interstate System

National System of Interstate Highways, Public Roads Administration, 1947 Early interstate plan, from “Toll Roads and Free Roads,” National Resources Planning Board and Bureau of Public Roads, 1939

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Intercity Passenger Network

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Passenger Rail Network

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Diagnostic National Freight Map

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Freight Network

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Shrinking cities and thinly populated places…

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Rank Nu Number r of Counti nties Percent nt of tot

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Population ation 1970 Population ation 2006 2006 Percent nt Change 1, 1,107 36% 36% 104,58 ,587, 7,456 456 191,3 1,345,88 45,884 83% 83% 1 707 23% 23% 33,699, 99,69 693 44,099, 99,72 727 31% 2 645 21% 48,416, 6,403 403 47,284, 4,43 431

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2% 3 419 14% 12,783,66 83,669 11, 1,703,0 703,076

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8% 4 221 7% 7% 2,115, 5,528 528 1, 1,733,0 3,019

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18% 3,099 201, 1,602,7 602,749 49 296,166, 66,137

Composite Index of Underperforming Characteristics

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Underperforming Counties

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Rank

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With the Exception of the Great Lakes Underperforming Counties are outside of the Megaregions

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Northern Rockies Great Plains Rio Grande Valley Great Lakes Mississippi Delta Deep South Appalachia / Rust Belt

Seven Underperforming Regions Identified

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Megaregion Forums to Set Priorities

Sacramento, Dec 2, 2008 Chicago, November 17, 2008

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www.America2050.org

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www.rpa.org

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Wide open spaces…

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10 Most Endangered Rivers

Source: American Rivers

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Biodiversity Hotspots

(most species, biggest threats)

Source: The Nature Conservancy

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North American Wildlife Corridors

Source: The Wildlands Project

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Climate Change

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America’s Great Outdoors: 21 Landscape Conservation Cooperatives

USFWS

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Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent

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Where is the Crown?

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Naming the Landscape

George Bird Grinell coined the term “Crown of the Continent” Blackfeet Nation called this area the “Backbone of the World”

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  • 18 million acre intact eco-region
  • 83% of the land in public ownership
  • Headwaters for 3 oceans
  • 4 ecosystems converge

– Old-growth cedar-hemlock rain forests in the west – Native short-grass prairies in the east – High alpine meadows – Variations north and south

The Place

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First Nations

The Crown is nested in a much larger territorial homeland

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Communities

About 200,000 people in the Crown Over 1 million in the surrounding area

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Special Designations

  • 2 national parks
  • 1st international

peace park

  • Biosphere reserve
  • 3 Wild and Scenic

Rivers

  • 5 wilderness areas
  • 5 endangered

species

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Richest biodiversity of plant and animal life in North America

  • 1200 vascular plants
  • 16 species of carnivores
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Threats to People and Land

Energy and resource development Residential/commercial development Economic stagnation/transformation Habitat fragmentation Climate change Wildfire management

Capacity to Respond

Lack of regional identity Fragmented efforts & jurisdictions BUT , an opportunity to be proactive Employ both bottom-up and top- down solutions and governance

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Contact/more information

Armando Carbonell Chairman, Department of Planning and Urban Form Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 113 Brattle Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-661-3016 email@lincolninst.edu Website: www.lincolninst.edu

www.lincolninst.edu