In today’s highly competitive and rapidly changing global economy, traditional political boundaries are becoming less and less relevant. The boundaries that matter, for work and play, are those of commerce and they are drawn around metropolitan regions, not localities.
As a result, the regions that will prosper are those that find ways to become more agile and efficient - providing their economies with cost effective inputs and supporting infrastructure - within these economic boundaries. In the absence of region-wide mechanisms for the provision of these essentials, cooperation among localities in a region is imperative. Why is this so? Simply put, there are three reasons:
In today’s highly competitive and rapidly changing global economy, traditional political boundaries are becoming less and less relevant. The boundaries that matter, for work and play, are those of commerce and they are drawn around metropolitan regions, not localities.