Administrative boundaries for North America based on settlement and transportation routes. The goal of this project is creation of a practical hierarchy of administrative units under a worldwide federal government. 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 .