Who gave the concept of "City-Region"?

Correct option is A

Introduction

The concept of the "City-Region" is a key idea in urban geography and planning that recognizes a city and its surrounding areas as a single, interconnected social and economic system.

The correct answer is Dickinson.

Information Booster

• Dickinson - The concept of the City-Region is primarily associated with the geographer Robert E. Dickinson.
• He introduced the term in the mid-20th century (specifically 1947) to highlight the functional relationship between a central city and its hinterland or surrounding areas.
• The concept emphasizes that the city's influence extends well beyond its administrative boundaries to encompass suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas that are economically and socially integrated through commuting, commerce, and service provision.
• It is a functional region defined by the dominance and sphere of influence of the core city.

Additional Knowledge

• Gottman  
  • Jean Gottmann is famous for coining the term "Megalopolis" in 1961, describing a vast, coalescing urban region formed by the continuous built-up areas of several metropolitan areas (e.g., the Northeast U.S. coast from Boston to Washington, D.C.).
  • His focus was on the structure and dynamics of these super-cities.
• Geddes   
  • Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist and town planner known for his holistic approach to planning and his influential book "Cities in Evolution" (1915).
  • He is credited with coining the term "Conurbation" to describe the agglomeration of towns into an extended urban area, which is an earlier, related concept but distinct from "City-Region."
• Zipf  
  • George Kingsley Zipf was a linguist and philologist best known for Zipf's Law in geography, also known as the Rank-Size Rule.
  • This law relates the population size of a city to its rank in the national hierarchy (the second-largest city is half the size of the largest, the third is one-third, and so on), not the functional area of a city.