Every one of these points of light its own polity, like the sphere lit by a candle flickering in the darkness. It's thought there are 9000 metropolitan areas in the world today, so the club of sovereigns would be a lot bigger.

Image is NASA's "Black Marble": Earth at night.

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If you ask me a sensible partition would be metropolitan, driven not by red and blue but by the far more enduring city and hinterland. Not a quick fix for polarization, but unlike the quick fix it's the sort of solution that could keep paying off for centuries to come.

Image is by Juan Velasco, for an old New York Times piece on the world order of the future.

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I'm working on a map I've created of #Culebra, #Puerto Rico. Here is a town that I've grown around the harbor in Dewey.

The inlet is somewhat protected and used for a ferry stop between outlying islands and into the larger bay.

My city is a population center in some alternate universe in which Culebra grows into a populous and prosperous #citystate that rules itself independently of the larger island of Puerto Rico.

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