A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Misc
ChiPitts The
ChiPitts megalopolis is the name for a group of
metropolitan area s in the
Great Lakes region or
Midwest of the
United States along with portions of the province of
Ontario ,
Canada ; also a very little of
Quebec , extending from
Pittsburgh to
Chicago and linked by economics, transport, and communications. The geographic trend was first identified in the
1961 book
Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States by
French geographer Jean Gottmann .
Gottmann also envisaged the development of two similar
megalopolis es in the US:
BosWash from
Boston to
Washington, DC and
SanSan from
San Francisco to
San Diego .
The major cities in the ChiPitts megalopolis include the following:
*
Wisconsin **
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin Fox Cities, Wisconsin Green Bay, Wisconsin Illinois Rockford, Illinois Aurora, Illinois Joliet, Illinois Chicago, Illinois *
Indiana **
Fort Wayne, Indiana **
Indianapolis, Indiana South Bend, Indiana Michigan Detroit, Michigan **
Escanaba, Michigan **
Flint, Michigan **
Grand Rapids, Michigan **
Marquette, Michigan **
Saginaw, Michigan **
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan *
Ohio **
Cleveland, Ohio Toledo, Ohio **
Akron, Ohio **
Canton, Ohio **
Dayton, Ohio **
Columbus, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio *
Pennsylvania **
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Erie, Pennsylvania Ontario Niagara Falls, Ontario North Bay, Ontario Ottawa, Ontario Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Sudbury, Ontario Toronto, Ontario **
Windsor, Ontario *
Quebec **'''
Montreal, Quebec **
Quebec City, Quebec The estimated population of this megalopolis is 54 million people.
Rank Combined Statistical Area State(s) 2004 Estimate 2000 Population 1990 Population (1990-2000)>- 3 Chicago-Aurora-Michigan City IL-IN-WI 9,608,458 9,312,255 8,385,397 11.1|- 9 Detroit-Warren-Flint MI 5,428,855 5,357,538 5,095,695 5.1|- 14 Cleveland-Akron-Elyria OH 2,942,303 2,945,831 2,859,644 3.0|- 17 Pittsburgh -New Castle PA 2,494,949 2,525,730 2,564,535 -1.5|- 19 Cincinnati-Middletown-Wilmington OH-KY-IN 2,100,501 2,050,175 1,880,332 9.0|- 22 Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus IN 1,939,349 1,843,588 1,594,779 15.6|- 24 Columbus -Marion -Chillicothe OH 1,920,601 1,835,189 1,613,711 13.7|- 25 Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha WI 1,709,926 1,689,572 1,607,183 5.1|- Combined CSAs US 28,144,942 27,559,878 25,601,276 7.6|}Metropolitan Statistical Area s not part of a CSA (see List of United States metropolitan statistical areas by population ), micropolitan or rural areas (see List of United States micropolitan statistical areas by population ), Toronto is at the centre of the Golden Horseshoe , a densely populated region in Ontario which is home to roughly eight million people, or one quarter of the Canadian population)The Pittsburgh-Chicago Corridor is an academic Urban Studies term that describes the area running through the Rust Belt from the Mid-Atlantic to the Western Great Lakes.Steel City Corridor ideally describes the area connecting Cleveland to Pittsburgh via Youngstown-Warren (OH), and Sharon-Farrell-New Castle (PA). Historically, these areas are known as the Steel Valleys (Mahoning and Shenango).Rust Belt .
