Talk:The Foundry (North American region)

Not a bona fide region
These regions are Joe Garreau-invented ones (another article is Empty Quarter (North America) and are not in wide use by other geographers; they are "theoretical" only, and the names like the regions are inventions of a particaulr author. This article, also, should be titled The Foundry (North America) as Ontario is clearly not part of a United States region.  What these articles should be titled is a tricky thing; they definitely should not be in the respective national "Regions" categories, which is how I found them (in Category:Regions of Canada. They're not "fictional regions" - so waht are they?Skookum1 (talk) 18:42, 23 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Agreed. This isn't worth its own article. The parent article on The Nine Nations of North America could be expanded slightly and its children removed. I found this by linking in from the article on the Rust Belt. Bigjimleo (talk) 17:45, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I guess a joint-merge proposal is in order....i.e. for all of the "Garreau regions" combined, merged into the Nine Nations page....if you'd care to start it I'll weigh in; I have a bad net connection so doing stuff like that is time-intensive, just waiting for the browser to untie itself a lot....Skookum1 (talk) 21:08, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

West Virginia
Whomever created the map, they have "too much" of West Virginia in The Foundry. Here is the original map. Big C  (talk) 11:16, 18 July 2008 (UTC)



Rename
The title should be The Foundry (North American region); it is not a region of the United States, as even Joel Garreau, its creator, spells out in the title of his book and in its contents. Also The Foundry (theoretical North American region) is more accurate, as this is not a widely-used term and is only found in the works of one author as a theory. It is not actually geography.Skookum1 (talk) 14:42, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

The Map - Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin
The map on this page depicts the entire states Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin as part of the Foundry region. However the original book, and the various summaries of the 9 nations, include only the industrial cities around Lake Michigan as part of the Foundry (Indianapolis, Gary, Chicago, Milwaukee, Green Bay). The rest of these states are part of the Breadbasket or the South. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Daveharrison84 (talk • contribs) 22:08, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Seconded. --Geenius at Wrok (talk) 21:14, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

I edited that map to make a more accurate version, but don't know how to properly upload it to Wiki commons. If anyone can help, i'd like to provide that updated map. -Monz (talk) 07:30, 5 September 2009 (UTC)