### Problem
>Metropolitan regions will not come to balance until each one is small and autonomous enough to be an independent sphere of culture.

### Solution
>Wherever possible, work toward the evolution of independent regions in the world; each with a population between 2 and 10 million; each with its own natural and geographic boundaries; each with its own economy; each a world government, without the intervening power of larger states or countries.

### Related Patterns
... within each region encourage the population to distribute itself as widely as possible across the region -- [[The Distribution of Towns (2)]] ...

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> [!cite]- Alexander, Christopher. _A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction_. Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 10.
> #APL/confidence/high
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> #APL/Town-Patterns/Network-of-Lattices