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Originally Posted by Konichiwaneko
but do most of our products begin on a basis of farm items are raw resources? Which tend to be located in rural areas.
Many buildings, large structures built in cities, I can go to podunk places in Alambama that turn steel, concrete and stone and they would be the places that build the foundation of that building.
Seccession of cities would be fun because yes lots of money would be there, but there would be a stunning lack of resources. It would be almost like Japan.
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Not sure this is true. Through history, most cities have been built with resources from nearby: local stone, local cement, local brick and so on. In today's economy of mass distribution, the Alabama concrete might be cheaper at some city than the local product. But if the Albama 'crete wasn't available, they could produce it locally. I live in a urban/rural county just south of the SF Bay, and we produced and still produce vast amounts of cement, gravel, limestone, and so on for the metro area. The old Italian city-states of yore controlled quite large territories around the city proper, for food and resources. These areas were as dependent on the city, for trade and commerce, as the city was for their resources.
As for steel: from scrap, in the short run. And a constellation of city-states could trade among themselves. In my hypothetical West Coast Republic, on the other hand, there are enough active and mothballed-but-intact mills to get by.