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Urban Secession
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Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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by BillSeitz
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Aug 16, 2008 8:44 pm |
Urban secession is a city's Secess Ion from its surrounding region, to form a new political unit (usually a state or district or province of the same country as its surroundings, but not always). It is the extreme form of [Urban Autonomy], which can be expressed in less formal terms or with ordinary legislation such as a [City Charter]... Secession (the setup of entirely new legislative and executive entities) is advocated by certain UrbAn theorists, notably Jane Jacobs, as the only way to deal politically with these vast differences in culture between modern cities and even their nearest SubUrb-s and essential watersheds. As she says: "Cities that wish to thrive in the next century must separate politically from their surrounding regions." She rejects the lesser "Charter" and less formal solutions, arguing the full structure of real regional government is necessary, and applied to the urban area alone. In particular she rejects the idea that suburban regions should have any say over the rules in the city: they have left it, and aren't part of it. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_secession
see also Federat Ion, Sovereign Ty
NYC case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_secession
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog