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Is that what they expect in 40 years? It says "America 2050" on it, but it looks oddly like current population numbers. If it is supposed to be 2050, it's assuming zero population growth in 40 years for the greater toronto metropolitan area, since it shows "3-6 million," and it's today it is already closer to 6 million than 5 million. (Some people say it's 8 million, because they include the other circles inside that big one as part of it.)

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But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
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Cool graph! But 2050 is too far ahead to try to draw these trends. Anything could happen at that point. For example did people at 1960 predict that some countries would actually lose population due to birth control? Far more radical things might take place by 2050.



Since we're making arbitrary predictions, why not add in a city of space aliens, several nuclear fallout zones, etc? Maybe we'll all be part robot by then and won't reproduce the old way? Just too much unpredictability.

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Also people might not care where they live if transportation improves, if the Internet is so awesome that going outside is boring, majority of people work from home, etc.

I think the idea of projecting continuation of sprawl that long really ignores very strong possibility of peak oil well within that time.

That said, interesting graph, if rather context-less.

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Solar power will take over soon enough, way before 2050. The costs of solar energy are quickly decreasing.



http://cleantechnica.com/2009/11/27/sol ... last-year/

And how will solar plants power cars, which are effectively the cause of sprawl?

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The vast majority of Pennsylvania that's shaded on that map is woods.

Not even farms. Woods.

It includes Pittsburgh which deserves a spot. It inclues Erie which just tops the 100k mark. It reaches out to just about include Altoona (50k) and State College (something like 50k also... except for 7 Sundays a year where it's the 3rd largest city in PA those days :p)

Everywhere else is woods.

In Mega-city, I am the law.

Just off the top of my head, we could use solar power to create hydrogen.

The DC-Boston corridor has long been predicted to become America's first megalopolis. Really, all it needs is the establishment of a unified high-speed rail to link up the various subways/elevated train systems. I suspect that peak oil would accelerate that, actually.

Also, on a more local note, I can definitely see the Cin-Day corridor merging pretty solidly in the next 20 years if the Dayton economy gets out of its funk. The I-75 corridor is already pretty close around here.. just a few rural gaps either side of Middletown/Franklin, and even then, we're talking less than 10 miles, really. If Dayton itself were larger, it'd be up there with Dallas-Ft. Worth, and only slightly more sprawly, geographically.

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They wanted to increase the coridoor to four lanes each way all the way up to here I was told.

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Lonedar,

Like this?



or like this?

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sweet, i live smack dab in the middle of the cursed earth

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I live in Texas/Mega city 3! I feel SO special.

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I have local knowledge.
That sandbar was not there yesterday!

Yes! In particular the top selection. (I had, until it was stolen, an autographed CD)

Mega-City Two here, as if I didn't know that already. according to the Angelinos, everything in California is a suburb of LA.

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Yeah, that's pretty crazy. Even Sidney's still BFE, and I don't see that changing in the next ten years.

Also, 4 lanes all the way up there? They're not even done getting 4 lanes downtown through Dayton, not to mention they just finished the 70/75 interchange and left it at 3!

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Maybe it was three. I know they wanted to do widening and exit consolidation and the locals want sound barriers.

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I've read that I-75 is one of the safest and smoothest interstates in the USA. Hope they don't mess with that. Especially as I use it once in a while. (And pretty much ALL of it when I do.)

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Wait, Mus are you trying to freak us out with some Judge Dredd paraphernalia? dude, didn't Stallone ruin that enough for you?

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"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I ab' da lawhhh!

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Holy shitsnacks!