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Borders
There are many kinds of borders to places, but they are not solid and they don't coincide with one another. To make all the different borders coincide is the dream of the nation state: linguistic and ethnic and economic and resource and other kinds of borders all coming together in a concentric whole that possesses clear defensible geographical edges framing a solid entity. It seldom works for a nation and it won't work for a city or suburb.People re-dream this on a various scales, wishing, for example, that bio-regions and political regions might coincide. The dream can lead to ethnic and other kinds of cleansing. Places resist coincidence of borders. Yet they remain oriented expanses of possibility.