Slideshow on “Metropolitan and urban regions” for Political Geography – © Mark M. Miller, Professor of Geography; School of Biology, Ecology, & Environmental Science; The University of Southern Mississippi

1. Political Geography:
Metropolitan & Other Regions
Arrakeen’s Site. Retrieved 5/2/06:
www.arrakeen.ch/usamex/mexico.html

2. Learning with Toys. Retrieved 4/6/06:
http://www.learningwithtoys.com/images2/440%20Melissa%20And%20Doug%20Lights%20Camera
%20Interaction%20United%20States%20USA%20Map.jpg
What are regions?

3. What are regions?
• Represent some reality
•Defy political boundaries
•Difficult to define with precision

4. Learning with Toys. Retrieved 4/6/06:
http://www.learningwithtoys.com/images2/440%20Melissa%20And%20Doug%20Lights%20Camera
%20Interaction%20United%20States%20USA%20Map.jpg
What are regions?

5. National Park Service. Yellowstone
ecosystem. Retrieved 5/2/06:
http://www.nps.gov/yell/nature/pritchard/images/map2.jpg

6. Wolf Recovery Foundation. Human impacts on
greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Retrieved 5/2/06:
http://www.forwolves.org/ralph/gyedevmap.htm

7. Viatgeaddictes.com. La Ruta
Maya. Retrieved 5/2/06:
http://www.viatgeaddictes.com/d
st/guatem/guatem91i_es.php

8. • Mississippi Blues Trail: http://www.msbluestrail.org/blues_trail/
• Roots of Rock 'n' Roll: Hattiesburg: http://msbluestrail.org/blues-trail-
markers/hattiesburg
• Mississippi Country Music Trail: http://www.mscountrymusictrail.org/
• Americana Music Triangle: http://americanamusictriangle.com/
• Mississippi Civil War sites: http://www.nps.gov/abpp/battles/MSmap.htm
• Mississippi Freedom Trail: https://civilrightstrail.com/attraction/mississippi-freedom-trail/

9. Urban regions
“Overbounded” urban region

10. Urban regions
“Underbounded” urban region

11. Mississippi Development Authority. Retrieved
November 17, 2009:
http://www.mississippi.org/index.php?id=513

12. At New Orleans. Retrieved November 17, 2009:
http://www.atneworleans.com/body/maps.htm

13. Federal Highway Administration. Atlanta MSA. Retrieved
5/2/06: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ctpp/jtw/profile4.jpg

14. Garreau, Joel. 1991. Edge City. Doubleday. P. 141.

15. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved November 16, 2009:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/msa_maps2008/us_wa
ll_1108.html

16. Morrill, Richard 2006 Classic map revisited:
the growth of megalopolis. Professional
Geographer 58(2): 155-160, p. 156.

17. • Mega-city
• Primate City

18. CNN. Retrieved 5/2/06:
http://edition.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/03/31/mexico.time.change/m
ap.mexico.mexico.city.jpg

19. Retrieved 5/2/06:
http://www.mapasdemexico.n
et/maps/mexico-city-area-
600x450.gif

20. Comparing Mexico City &
New Orleans

22. WORLD MEGACITIES
Urban Areas with More than 10,000,000 Population (2015)
Demographia. Retrieved November 19, 2015: http://www.demographia.com/db-megacity.pdf

24. Forbes. World’s fastest growing megacities. Retrieved November 19, 2015:
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/edgl45fdfe/introduction-5/

25. Ferris, David. Asia's Megacities Pose A Stark Environmental Challenge. Forbes. August 31, 2012:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidferris/2012/08/31/the-stark-environmental-challenge-of-asias-megacities/