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...want to create districts of approximately 500,000 people each. First, find the average per-square-mile population of the state. Next, draw a grid across its map with squares containing an average of 500,000 people in each one. Now comes the unavoidably subjective part. Squares must be added, subtracted and tinkered with until the populations in each district are correct. If the same algorithm is used for every district everywhere (i.e. start at western portion of the state, always expand districts east, then north, then south, etc.), the system becomes largely impartial over the entire nation...
Ironically, the phenomenon is a return to the city's past. Before the unbridled freeway and suburban development of the 1950s and '60s, Los Angeles traveled on trolleys -- over an extended grid of 12 lines covering 1,500 miles. Metrolink and a complementary subway system under downtown to be completed in 1997 will eventually connect 70 stations across 400 miles of track -- a case of going back to the future...
...more relevant to suppose that more and more of the world may come to resemble Hong Kong, a stateless special economic zone full of expats and exiles linked by the lingua franca of English and the global marketplace. Some urbanists already see the world as a grid of 30 or so highly advanced city- regions, or technopoles, all plugged into the same international circuit...
...first time President Clinton assessed a problem not in terms of jobs gained and jobs lost, not in the partisan terms of change versus grid lock, not in the politically calculated terms that have become so common, but instead in terms of principle and moral urgency. After citing statistics demonstrating the disgraceful effects of urban violence of American youth, the President proclaimed, powerfully and passionately, "I tell you, it is our moral duty to turn it around...
...real thing. One intrepid group of computer users constructed a section of the London Underground, complete with a virtual subway. MUDs come and go, drifting in and out of favor, but the current count is estimated at 300 worldwide, most of them accessible through the vast global computer grid called the Internet...