To achieve a port civilization economic activities cannot be limited. In a broad way of understanding the best functioning cities where food, shelter, and a life of the mind are most advanced, the city or town must make itself into a destination for its citizens and its visitors.
It must be for those that live there a destination achieved once they get out the door of their home. Great places are like that.
The office of Transportation Planner for the Town of Carrboro is open, and I applied for it because it is an area of my study. All of my study of governance results from my determination to build a nation of airports and spaceports. The caveat that has made my work difficult, in one crucially dramatic and pivotal way is that to normally achieve the foundation of a nation, one gets the national identity from a war. Blood sacrifice is required and I have not been willing to forment war.
