Megalopolis

The same way the Megalopolis is composed of a region characteristics, the Boise/Nampa area have similar physical characteristics among their region. We can say that the Megalopolis that exist in Idaho runs from west to east along the Snake river basin. A lot of water ways are also present in the Boise and Nampa areas , but they dont always provide traviling through them. Boise City-Nampa is the biggest metropolitan area between Portland, Oregon and Salt Lake City, Utah(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boise#Demographics). Boise being the biggest metropolitan city in all of Idaho serves as a urban center in the middle of a mostly rural and natural place bringing in companies such as Micron Technology. All the other small cities around Boise which are growing around the area making it the center of all the cities. Cities like Boise, Idaho, Denver, Colorado, and Minneapolis, Minnesota dominate cultural lives well outside of their home states; regions with multiple big cities in close proximity, such as along the northern east coast of the US, find that their footprints are much smaller, even if the populations are far larger (http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003651.html). Here it shows how even much smaller cities in a proximity of each other have the same effect that the Megalopolis in the east coast has on their regions which are similar.