City region

City region is a term in use since about 1950 by urbanists, economists and urban planners to mean a metropolitan area and hinterland, often having a shared administration. Typically, it denotes a city, conurbation or urban zone with multiple administrative districts, but sharing resources like a central business district , labour market and transport network such that it functions as a single unit.

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1. City region   Prepared By Gayathry Satheesan

2. City region  It is a term in use since about 1950 by  urbanists , economists and urban planners to mean a metropolitan area and hinterland, often having a shared administration. Typically , it denotes a city, conurbation or urban zone with multiple administrative districts, but sharing resources like a central business district, labour market and transport network such that it functions as a single unit.

3. In studying human geography, urban and regional planning or the regional dynamics of business it is often worthwhile to have closer regard to dominant travel patterns during the working day than to the rather arbitrary boundaries assigned to administrative bodies such as councils, prefectures, or localities defined merely to optimise postal services. Inevitably , city regions change their shapes over time and quite reasonably, politicians seek to redraw administrative boundaries by perceived geographic reality.

4. The extent of a city region is usually proportional to the intensity of activity in and around its central business district, but the spacing of competing centres of population can also be highly influential. It will be appreciated that a city region need not have a symmetrical shape, and that is especially true in coastal or lakeside situations.

5. Areas of City Dominance and City Region A city tends to exert a dominant influence over a small area in its immediate neighbourhood by virtue of the provision of specialized services. It must be borne in mind that there are several areas of dominance because a city possesses more than one service to provide around it. In case of India, majority of cities have no clear specialization in any one economic activity, but in reality they have diversification of several economic functions and services.

6. This has resulted into several areas of dominance around a city. Each of the areas of dominance has its own hierarchical level. The largest of these areas of dominance forms the limit of influence of the city known as ‘city region’; while the smaller ones are known as areas of dominance.

7. Recently, this has been noted that clusters of urban settle­ments have grown around large metropolises such as around Delhi in India. It also results into formation of what is called sometimes as ‘ city region ’ because it is made up of several areas of dominance by towns and country-towns falling within the ambit of a major city or metropolis.

8. Major city regions Maharashtra – Gujarat sector, Delhi nucleus, Kolkata-Howrah node, and Chennai-Bangalore sector.

9. Minor city regions Hyderabad-Vishakhapatnam, Kanpur- Lucknow , Jaipur , Nagpur, Patna, Kochi-Madurai sector, Coimbatore, Vijayawada, Ambala -Amritsar- Jullunder , Chandigarh, and Agra.

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