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Explain the qualitative and quantitative methods of delineation of the sphere of urban influence.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Regional Planning

The sphere of urban influence — the Umland of German and Scandinavian usage, the city region in Dickinson's (1947) formulation — is the tract around a town with which it maintains a two-way inflow–outflow relationship.

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