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On the Eastern Seaboard, airline pilots flying north at dusk from Washington to Boston look down on a coruscating corridor of light, an unbroken, 450-mile-long conglomeration of 37 million Americans that is referred to by demographers as "the Eastern Megalopolis." Another area is growing even faster, and will...
Advancing technology is already providing, and will continue to provide, dozens of other modes and systems of transportation. In fact, in the struggle to keep people moving in the megalopolis, technology is already years ahead of planning and financing, the intersection at which most of the nation's transportation...
U.C.L.A. has consciously tried to put its intellectual resources at the service of the community in which it lives. One experiment in this direction is a new urban studies center, at which scholars of different disciplines are teaming to help solve some basic problems of the Los Angeles megalopolis, such...
Headed for Megalopolis. Universities that have pioneered the cluster concept seem pleased with their progress. Wayne State University's Monteith College started the current trend in 1959. The University of the Pacific, which opened its first "college within a college" in 1962, will have three by next year. Two...
Not every university administrator endorses the cluster idea. Purdue Vice President Paul Chenea contends that no matter what the size of a school, a student tends to become familiar with only half a dozen teachers and a score of students. Others argue that the diversity of relationships at a big...