Here's an article from CNNMoney 2005-one of the regions listed here is one of 10 megapolitans planned in the US-this will carry over into Canada so the gov needs to acquire more land and how will these areas be populated? Massive immigration.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/11/01/8362817/index.htm
If you think the real estate boom of the past decade was bounteous, peek a little further over the horizon: Researchers estimate that the massive buildout will constitute a $25 trillion development market by 2030, more than twice the size of the entire U.S. economy today. According to Lang, the bulk of that money will flow into 10 major metro regions he has christened "megapolitans." On the following pages, we've assembled exclusive growth forecasts for each of these regions and--based on interviews with dozens of regional planners, developers, and investors--identified the savviest angles to play in the near and long term.
GREAT LAKES HORSESHOE • CHICAGO • DETROIT • PITTSBURGH
NEW PEOPLE: 4M (+10%) NEW JOBS: 3.2M (+17%) NEW HOMES: 2.5M units (+16%) NEW OFFICE SPACE: 14M sq. ft. (+94%)
Hit hard by manufacturing's decline, the constellation of Northern industrial cities is morphing into a service-economy region and will draw a flood of immigrants.
KEY DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFT: With the smallest percentage of baby boomers of all the megapolitans, this region will have one of the most plentiful prime-age workforces for the next two decades.
NEW GROWTH INDUSTRY: Third-party logistics contractors that manage supply chains for companies ranging from carmakers to retailers.
BEST BUSINESSES TO START: Retail stores and restaurants in Latino enclaves like Chicago's Little Village.
BEST RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE BET: Elburn, Ill., a tiny Chicago suburb set to boom after a commuter rail extension is completed by year's end.
BEST COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BET: Joliet, an old steel-mill boomtown on the Des Plaines River and the hub of Will County, is expected to be among Illinois's fastest-growing towns in the next quarter-century.
IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE TO ...: Redevelop a lot within Chicago's Loop; Trump was one of the last to move in.
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They set aside VAST "national parks" to keep city prices high, and now this. Land belongs to no man. It is occupied: that is the most that can be said of it.
Who did you buy your land from? And who did he buy it from? Eventually you come to a dead end. It was simply there and someone stuck a flag in it. IT'S MINE. No it is not. You cannot take it away so you cannot own it. All land ownership is, is the prevention of LIVING by ordinary people, unless they pay a ransom.
There is enough land for everyone on this planet. If we all had enough money we could all pay for a house and live in it, so monsy is nothing to do with it. We don't suddenly take up more room than before, just because we are no longer TENANTS of the state.
I recognise no state. I do not wish to pay any taxes, of any kind. I have no need of an army for I am not violent. I need no police, for my laws are universal ones, not arbitrary ones. I have no wish for drugs, for I do not want to get "better". I only wish to remain the same. I do not need someone to collect my garbage while telling me I cannot burn it. I would rather make my own decision to simply burn it and pay no one. I do not need food to be grown for me on land that has been roped off. I would pick the food myself if that were not so.
Land is theft.
so land should be confiscated by the state and re-distibuted? Money to build a home on it will come from the collective? a qualified agent at the state level will decide who lives where and will work in a job assigned for them?
you cannot confiscate land because you cannot own it in the first place. To gently remove land from dynasties through a simple abolishment of the inheritability of land is number one. Then, we apply FAIR USE to all land. If it is being used, you can stay. If you are not using it for an extended period or at all, then someone else can use it. This needs no policing. It is the exact same principle that is applied every day to sidewalks, park benches and cafes. To accumulate land, in other words, shelter, is morally indefensible and is as wrong as accumulating air, or water, or anything else that is required for human life.