BIBLIOGRAPHY
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- Planet Drum Foundation, "Emerging States: A Bioregional Directory" in Raise the Stakes, No. 12, Spring 1987. A set of maps shows divisions of the North American continent under various criteria related to bioregions. The map of local bioregional organizations shows several overlaps, indicating that there is not yet agreement on how to apply the standards. The foundation can be reached by e-mail at planetdrum@igc.org.
- Sale, Kirkpatrick, Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision, Sierra Club Books 1985. Sale's version of bioregional theory is described in detail and applied to the Connecticut River basin.
- Several portions of the boundary of the State of Delaware approximate arcs of a 12-mile circle from the courthouse in New Castle.
- Brunn, Stanley, "A New United States", Geography and politics in America, p424-425, Harper & Row 1974. Because current boundaries as "barriers to legislation and political progress", states are redrawn to reflect "economic orientation, social and cultural heritage, and political ideology". (For a summary, see Orsag, Carol, "A 16-State Nation".)
- Garreau, Joel, The Nine Nations of North America, Avon 1981.
- Orsag, Carol, "A 16-State Nation", The People's Almanac, Doubleday 1975, after p922. Overview of Stanley Brunn's proposal.
- Russell, Richard Joel and Fred Bowerman Kniffen, Culture Worlds, Macmillan 1951. This textbook maps major and minor cultural divides. A large number of ethnic groups are mentioned, although not all are described.
- Russell, Richard Joel, Fred Bowerman Kniffen, and Evelyn Lord Pruitt, Culture Worlds, Macmillan 1969. This revision contains somewhat less than and quite different information from the 1951 edition.
- Christaller, Walter, Central Places in Southern Germany, translated from Die Zentralen Orte in Süddeutschland by Carlisle W. Baskin, Prentice-Hall 1966. Various geometric patterns of central places provide different advantages to transportation, distribution, or administration (p 78-80, 140-159, 226).
- Cleaver, Ward, "Administrative Boundaries for North America" 1997. Study of using population troughs to create hierarchy of nodal administrative units.
- Jacobs, Jane (1916-2006), Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life, Random House 1984. To provide market responsiveness, every urban region needs its own currency. Cited examples include the ancient city-state, the medieval European city-state, modern Singapore, Hong Kong, and "Ring City" in the Netherlands (Chapter 11, Faulty feedback to Cities).
- Kolars, John F. and John D. Nystuen, Human Geography: Spatial Design in World Society, McGraw-Hill. This textbook provides a clear summary of the geographic development of administrative hierarchies according to Christaller and Lösch (p 86-91, 100, 110-111).
- Lösch, August, The Economics of Location, Yale Univ. Press 1954, translated by William H. Woglom with the assistance of Wolfgang F. Stolper from Die raumliche Ordnung der Wirtschaft, 2nd revised edition, 1944. In a profound treatise, Lösch corrects Christaller's mistakes (p 131-133, footnote 16; p 431-433). He discusses the "pass city", through which all transportation must be routed (p 187-191). He compares states and economic landscapes (p 196-214). He also discusses the effect of boundaries on frontier regions (p 445-451).
- MacGregor, Daniel, questions about regional boundaries.
- Nielsen, A. C., Designated Market Areas
- Orsag, Carol, "A 38-State Nation", The People's Almanac, Doubleday 1975, after p546. Overview of G. Etzel Pearcy's proposal.
- Pearcy, G. Etzel,
- A Thirty-eight State U.S.A., Plycon Press 1973. Traditionally, boundaries have followed rivers, mountain ridges, or rectangular coordinates (p 1). The advantages of basing boundaries on population density and metropolitan areas are discussed (p 2-3). In an interview on the NBC television network's "Tomorrow" program (1973 or 1974), Pearcy also discussed market areas, which tend to coincide with metropolitan areas. (For a summary, see Orsag, Carol, "A 38-State Nation". For an update of Pearcy's ideas, see Ward Cleaver, "Administrative Boundaries for North America".)
- Supercounties, Plycon Press 1976.
- Fake Is The New Real, "Electoral Reform Map". This map attempts to replace 50 unequal states with 50 states of equal population, to equal electoral power.
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