by Brandon G. Donnelly5.
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Your MesaZona blogger has just one bone to pick about America needs a new map and it's that artificial man-made lines called "borders" separate what are natural geographic areas that flow into each other. The same border boundary exclusions are frequently used in American weather forecasts - weather is world-wide, friends.
If what's stated about Detroit in Brandon's blog feature can be applied here in Arizona, then we should pay more attention to the transnational Arizona-Mexico economic development zone and get over all the mierda about fences and walls that divide opportunities for commerce and culture
Faithful readers of this blog will note that the area on the map marking The Arizona Sun Corridor has been featured in more than a few posts. You can use the search tool in the upper right-hand corner of the main page to locate all of them
He writes
"Parag Khanna recently published an article in the New York Times calling for a new map for America.
Here’s why:
“The problem is that while the economic reality goes one way, the 50-state model means that federal and state resources are concentrated in a state capital — often a small, isolated city itself — and allocated with little sense of the larger whole. Not only does this keep back our largest cities, but smaller American cities are increasingly cut off from the national agenda, destined to become low-cost immigrant and retirement colonies, or simply to be abandoned.” This is something that I’ve been writing about for awhile on this blog. . . As we continue to transition to an urban-based information economy, it strikes me that, here in North America, . . . "
[ MesaZona Blogger's note -
then please include in this map Canada + Mexico in" North America" !! ] ,
Yes, "We're going to need to refocus our governance structures around cities."
Yes, " We’re going to need to place our metropolitan regions at the fore if we want to continue competing with rising powers like China – which, by the way, seem to be adopting a megacity model.
Here’s another snippet from the article:
“While Detroit’s population has fallen below a million, the Detroit-Windsor region is the largest United States-Canada cross-border area, with nearly six million people (and one of the largest border populations in the world).
This is something that I’ve been writing about for awhile on this blog. As we continue to transition to an urban-based information economy, it strikes me that, here in North America, we’re going to need to refocus our governance structures around cities. We’re going to need to place our metropolitan regions at the fore if we want to continue competing with rising powers like China – which, by the way, seem to be adopting a megacity model.
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