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Commuters and Computers: Mapping U.S. Megaregions

Oct 31, 2017 | 09:00 GMT

Morning commuters travel eastward from Los Angeles.

Morning commuters travel eastward from Los Angeles. We tend to think of cities as individual economic units, but as they expand outward and bleed together, defining them by official jurisdictions and borders becomes difficult.

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From California's Bay Area to the highly integrated Great Lakes economy, megaregions are a critical aspect of human geography and commerce....

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