On the European model, blocks would be combined into neighborhoods, neighborhoods into hamlets, hamlets into villages, villages into towns, towns into boroughs, boroughs into cities, cities into counties, counties into provinces, provinces into regions, regions into countries, countries into subcontinents, subcontinents into continents, and continents into a planet. Services would be provided and decisions made at appropriate levels. Boundaries cross sparsely-inhabited areas between urban concentrations. Cities are kept together with their suburbs and surrounding trade territory. Broadcasting markets are united.
Compact shape reduces transportation cost for state government.
However, population shifts over the past 25 years have led us to depart in many instances from Pearcy's specific proposals . Elections can be held according to methods described at the Center for Voting and Democracy . The Rio Grande and nearby regions . The territory running from the Great Lakes to Chesapeake Bay and Cape Cod Middle Atlantic seaboard including Lake Ontario and the Susquehanna, Delaware, and Hudson Rivers. The Deep South Peninsula of Florida Comparison with 38-state proposal of G. Etzel Pearcy .