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Nine Nations Of North America
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Bill Seitz is a Product Manager/CTO with a track-record of bringing a business perspective to building agile product-development teams for start-ups, and is seeking a senior role in an entrepreneurial organization building disruptive Internet-driven products.
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Nov 20, 2008 5:27 am |
Joel Garreau book suggesting that there are 9 different regional cultures covering the US, Canada, and Mexico, and that maybe it would make sense to draw national boundaries that way...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Nations_of_North_America
http://www.garreau.com/main.cfm?action=book&id=3
Garreau argued that everything from politics to Urban Planning must be redesigned to match the evolving regional or bio-regional sensibilities that now matter more to people than national and international borders..The theory of [Bioregional Democracy] and Urban Secession owe much to his analysis, as does the theory of Free Trade... A parallel impact has been to cast doubt on the role of American state and Canadian provincial governments, especially vis a vis these keystone cities. (more detailed summary)
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog