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City-regions as territorial unit for regional planning and development.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Regional Development and Planning

A city-region is the territory over which a city's daily influence extends — its commuting field, labour-shed, market and service area, and its water, food and waste hinterland: a functional (nodal) region defined by flows, not by homogeneity or administrative fiat.

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  • What a city-region is
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