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According to Gottman, BosWash "provides the whole of America with so many essential services, of the sort a community used to obtain in its 'downtown' section, that it may well deserve the nickname of Main Street of the nation." He also envisaged the development of two similar megalopolises in the US: ChiPitts from Chicago to Pittsburgh and SanSan from San Francisco to San Diego.
BosWash contains a reported population of 44 million, or 16% of the population of the United States, and four of the world's fifty largest metropolitan areas — Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington — as well as the New York Stock ExchangeThe New York Stock Exchange NYSE is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. The NYSE is operated by the not-for-profit corporation New York Stock Exchange, Inc, with its main building located at 18 Broad Street, at the corner of Wall Street, in N, the White HouseThis page is about the official residence of the President of the USA. For other White Houses see White House (disambiguation). See also 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical . The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President and US Capitol, the UN Headquarters, the headquarters of ABCPaul Rand in 1962. ABC network re-directs here; an alternate meaning is Australian Broadcasting Corporation The American Broadcasting Company or ABC is a television and radio network in the United States, owned by The Walt Disney Company. History In 1940, NBC, CBS, and the New York Times CompanyThe New York Times Company is an American media corporation, best known for owning the New York Times newspaper. It also owns the Boston Globe and International Herald Tribune plus 16 smaller newspapers; eight television stations; two radio stations in Ne as well as the Washington Post, and six of the Ivy League schools. The high-speed Amtrak train, the Acela, runs the length of the BosWash area.
The major cities in the BosWash megalopolis include the following: