摘要：According to regional economists, international borders tend to push economic activity toward the centres of the countries. Hoover (1963) cal1s political boundaries trade barriers with "locations near the boundary (being) at a disadvantage as processing centers". Losch's term for this phenomenon is "border wasteland". The border location of northern New York historically has prevented its full economic integration with Canada. The region is positioned between the two industrial heartlands of North America-one to the south in the United States, a 500 mile-wide band stretching from Boston to New York to Washington, D.C, and westward to Chicago (including such urban areas in New York State as Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo), and the other to the north in Canada, encompassing from east to west Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, and Windsor.
