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In 1915 Patrick Geddes (1854–1932) coined the term “City-Region” while discovering a new urban dimension in industrial Britain
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Geddes, P. (2022). The City-Region (1915). In: Barcelloni Corte, M., Viganò, P. (eds) The Horizontal Metropolis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56398-1_8
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