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Examine the concept of sphere of urban influence and discuss the methods of its delimitation.

  • Settlement Geography

The sphere of urban influence is the tract around a town with which it maintains a continuous two-way exchange of people, goods, services and information. It is a functional region, not an administrative one, and its defining property is that influence decays gradually outwards. Because the decay is continuous no natural edge exists: every boundary…

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