Interlocalism
Interlocalism is adaptation and expansion of the industrial concept of “clusters.” Compatible communities competing and collaborating in a network of mutually supportive, global-wired urban hubs that recognize and accept that economics ─ fueled by the natural resources that empires, countries, communities, tribes and villages have gone to war over ─ are, and always have been, the underlying driving engine of the locomotive of politics and senseless wars that get innocent, uneducated children killed because of their parent’s ignorance.
China has rejected the globalization economic model just as it did rural communism, and is forming Confucian humanist city clusters as the essential national cornerstone and integral part of its future interlocal cluster economic model. Most of the megacities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan ─ already home to millions of people ─ have room to grow. Smaller cities around the megacities ─ especially those with populations of around 1 million ─ will become an integral part of city clusters.
China, the world’s most populous nation, is now at the peak of its urban transformation. Urbanites will outnumber peasants within a decade. China will then have 83 cities with more than 750,000 residents, but only five with a population of more than five million.
City clusters have already formed on the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, with Hong Kong, Shanghai and Guangzhou as their respective cores. With plans to turn Kowloon Bay and Kwun Tong into Hong Kong’s third-largest commercial district by 2010, the market is decentralizing to compensate for the lack of large commercial property in Hong Kong’s central business district. No different than New York or Los Angeles, which just keep spreading, whether it’s from Manhattan to Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Statten Island, the Hamptons or Fire Island. L.A.? Beverly Hills, Bel-Air, Santa Monica, Culver City, Malibu all the way to the Ventura County line. Let’s not forget the coastal cities from Manhattan Beach all the way to the Laguna Beach-Capistrano county line ─ actually all the way down to La Jolla to Acapulco with a lot of interlocal communities in between. All had two great things in common. Great interlocal people and seafood restaurants, actually, just like Hong Kong ─ all kinds of phenomenal international, local, and interlocal cuisines, because all their respective best chefs seem to want go and interlocalize ingredients and cuisines.
China has rejected the globalization economic model just as it did rural communism, and is forming Confucian humanist city clusters as the essential national cornerstone and integral part of its future interlocal cluster economic model. Most of the megacities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan ─ already home to millions of people ─ have room to grow. Smaller cities around the megacities ─ especially those with populations of around 1 million ─ will become an integral part of city clusters.
China, the world’s most populous nation, is now at the peak of its urban transformation. Urbanites will outnumber peasants within a decade. China will then have 83 cities with more than 750,000 residents, but only five with a population of more than five million.
City clusters have already formed on the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, with Hong Kong, Shanghai and Guangzhou as their respective cores. With plans to turn Kowloon Bay and Kwun Tong into Hong Kong’s third-largest commercial district by 2010, the market is decentralizing to compensate for the lack of large commercial property in Hong Kong’s central business district. No different than New York or Los Angeles, which just keep spreading, whether it’s from Manhattan to Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Statten Island, the Hamptons or Fire Island. L.A.? Beverly Hills, Bel-Air, Santa Monica, Culver City, Malibu all the way to the Ventura County line. Let’s not forget the coastal cities from Manhattan Beach all the way to the Laguna Beach-Capistrano county line ─ actually all the way down to La Jolla to Acapulco with a lot of interlocal communities in between. All had two great things in common. Great interlocal people and seafood restaurants, actually, just like Hong Kong ─ all kinds of phenomenal international, local, and interlocal cuisines, because all their respective best chefs seem to want go and interlocalize ingredients and cuisines.
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