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WHILE this book is not directly about planning, it deals with matters and conceptions that are essential to any far-sighted planning schemes. Human ecology, as the relation of society to the area in which it lives, is a difficult but most important study and one that is too often overlooked in schemes of administration. The spatial relations of human society is a study that has received too little attention in Great Britain. The city is a regional centre of a larger or smaller area, and its function as such is an important condition in delimiting regions within any country. Some cities weld together larger areas than others and size is not a necessary criterion of this function. Mr. Dickinson deals mainly with the town or city as a regional capital, but has also a good deal to say on the possible delimitation of regions in the United States, France and England and Wales. The book merits close attention.
City Region and Regionalism
A Geographical Contribution to Human Ecology. By Robert E. Dickinson. (International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction.) Pp. xv + 327. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1947.) 21s. net.
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City Region and Regionalism. Nature 160, 854 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160854d0
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