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“Urban Geography is nothing but city ‘in’ area and city ‘as’ area.” Elaborate.

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  • Settlement Geography

Raymond Murphy’s twofold definition (1966) fixes urban geography’s object of study: the city “in” area — a point among points, known by its situation, its rank within a settlement system and the region it commands — and the city “as” area — a tract of differentiated land use, morphology and social space, known from within.…

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  • The City “In” Area: A Point in a Wider System
  • Situation, Centrality and Hierarchy
  • City-Size Distributions and Primacy
  • The Umland and Rural-Urban Interaction
  • The National and Global Network
  • The City “As” Area: A Tract of Differentiated Land Use
  • …and 5 more sections, with a conclusion

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