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The Northeast corridor is America’s busiest rail line. Each day, its trains deliver 800,000 passengers to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington and points in between. The Northeast corridor is also a name for the place those trains serve: the coastal plain stretching from Virginia to Massachusetts, where over 17% of the country’s population lives on […] The post How trains linking rival U.S. East Coast port cities created a cultural and economic megalopolis appeared first on Rhode Island Cu

The Northeast corridor is America’s busiest rail line. Each day, its trains deliver 800,000 passengers to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and points in between. The Northeast corridor is also a name for the place those trains serve: the coastal plain stretching from Virginia to Massachusetts, where over 17 percent of the country’s population lives […] The post How trains linked rival port cities along the East Coast into a cultural and economic megalopolis appeared first on New Hamps

The idea of "megaregions" is getting a bit too much mega-hype.

A settlement, locality, or populated place is a community in which people live. A settlement can range in size from a small number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of cities with surrounding urbanized areas. Settlements may include hamlets, villages, towns, and cities. Settlement refers to the cluster of houses over space which manifests the socioeconomic conditions…

In 1962, a reporter from the Providence Journal named Neil Oldham visited Block Island to interview an 80-year-old sage of the birding world named Miss Elizabeth Dickens. His journey commenced in the declining city of Providence, R.I. The...