Here's one positive solution for York! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLHh9E5ilZ4&feature=youtube_gdata_player . This is a brilliant presentation by acclaimed British researcher and author Matt Ridley at the 2010 World TED conference. It offers a precise and fascinating solution that will result in economic prosperity and a socially dynamic FUN community in York, PA!
This totally meshes with what David Rusk has said: The disadvantage of our little municipal and educational boxes not just the financial inefficiency but the stifling of the creative process and collaboration that make for a socially dynamic and economically prosperous community. Henry James said it best: "Connect. Only connect."
In this provocative TED presentation, Ridley mentions a society in Tasmania that was cut off from the world by natural events that made their community a literal island. Not only did their society not progress. It regressed. Sound familiar to the situation with our 72 municipality boxes and 16 school district boxes? Ridley clearly outlines the real scientific and economic benefits of "the free flow of ideas."
I think this guy has us nailed. His main conclusion after much research is that societies progress when ideas are able to have sex with each other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLHh9E5ilZ4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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