Lewis Mumford posited a redrawing of political boundaries

“No existing state or administrative lines are sacred or unalterable . . . it would be absurd to imagine that the forms achieved during the modernist era of extreme instability and rapid transition were permanent ones . . . What has been created by humanity in the past can be redefined and re-created in the interests of a more effective communal life. Hence, local administrative boundaries or national boundaries that interrupt the more fundamental configurations of regions, or the grouping of regional into inter-regional areas or provinces, must be progressively diminished and eventually wiped out. That means the devolution of political power and the building up of re-localized centers of initiative and control . . .”

— Lewis Mumford (in his 1938 book: The Culture of Cities)