Overview

The Information Age Community (ICA) concept is defined as that geographic area which is socio-economically oriented to a major metropolitan area.  The five-state Minneapolis-St Paul ICA’s dynamic border reflects the relative strength of competing metro areas with a boundary roughly defined by...
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Regional Monitor

THE REGIONAL INDEX STRUCTURE The world-wide scope of this process demands that it will necessarily evolve to meet the needs of other cultures, however, for this concept to be effective, the basic structure defined here must expand to meet these needs since proliferation of the concept merely continu...
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Community Alliance

IMPLEMENTATION Climate Change, urban congestion, the urban –rurlal divide, the budget deficit and so many more issues are seemingly impossible to resolve in today’s political environment. The Smart Region concept sees them all as variants of the same issue: the Community has atrophied and is no ...
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