Metropolitan Plan

This chapter by Gary Hack  descibes more about metropolitan areas within planning development. Metropolitan area is defined as a large population centre covering  a large mother city  and its adjacent zone of influence, or more than one closely adjoining neighboring central cities and their zone of influence. metropolitan areas in this chapter focus more on american metropolitan cities sucha as San francisco metropolitan areas encompasing city of San francisco itself, and other cities. There are a number of issues within metropolitant areas such as transit. transit problem  is aviously caused by the growing and expending of the metropitan areas. As a result of transit issue,, people are driven out of the inner city as well as the business activities expending out of the city  into the urban fringe to avoid trasfic congestion.
The chapter also discusses the changing trend of the inner city. Here,, current inner cities does not look like they were before when all activities are centralized in the inner of the cities. Nowaday metropolitan cities tends to distribute activities down to the urban fringes.For example; financial and business services are distributed to the outer suburban from the inner cities.
The chapter also describes the future of traditional downtowns. the future of traditional downtowns will bring comparative advantages in the area of tourism, conventions,communicaions,entertainments,healthcare services,higher education,government services, and private businesses.