The term city region has been in use since about 1950 by urbanists, economists and urban planners to mean not just the administrative area of a recognisable city or conurbation but also its hinterland that will often be far bigger. Conventionally, if one lives in an apparently rural area, suburb or county town where a majority of wage-earners travel into a particular city for a full or part-time job then one is (in effect) residing in the city region. List of urban theorists, in alphabetical order: Christopher Alexander Donald Appleyard Manuel Castells Richard Florida Joel Garreau Sir Peter Hall David Harvey Jane Jacobs Kevin Lynch Lewis Mumford Witold Rybczynski See also List of urban planners List of planned communities New town Urban design Urban economics Urban planner Urban planning... Economists are scholars conducting research in the field of economics. ... List of urban planners chronological by initial year of plan. ... It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ...

In studying human geography, urban and regional planning or the regional dynamics of business it is often worthwhile having closer regard to dominant travel patterns during the working day (to the extent that these can be estimated and recorded), than to the rather arbitrary boundaries assigned to administrative bodies such as councils, prefectures, or to localities defined merely to optimise postal services. Inevitably City Regions change their shapes over time and quite reasonably politicians seek to redraw administrative boundary maps from time-to-time to keep in-tune with perceived geographic reality. 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 influencial. It will be apprciated that a city region need not have a symmetrical shape, and that is especially true in coastal or lakeside situations (consider for instance Oslo, Southampton or Chicago). Human geography, also known as anthropogeography, is the most boring subject devised by mankind. ... Urban and regional planning is generally accepted as an academic discipline centred upon studies of urbanism in geography. ... Downtown Honolulu in Hawaii, United States, an example of an urban downtown district Central business district (CBD) and downtown are terms referring to a commercial heart of a city. ...

In a German context, the Lander of Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg qualify as city regions for their historical and constitutional status as 'free cities'. In the United Kingdom, the city regional agenda is picking up as an alternative to the Regional Assemblies that were favoured as a partial answer to the West Lothian Question but rejected in a referendum by voters in November 2004. An embryonic city regional framework exists in the form of the Passenger Transport Executive and the Core Cities Group. This article is about the spacecraft type. ... This article is about the city in Germany. ... The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (official name; German: Freie Hansestadt Bremen) is one of Germanys 16 states (Bundesländer). ... Hamburgs central promenade Jungfernstieg on the Alster lake, between 1900 and 1914 Hamburg is Germanys second largest city (after Berlin) and, with the Hamburg Harbour, its principal port. ... Regional Assembly is a title which has universally been adopted by the English bodies established as regional chambers under the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998. ... The West Lothian question is a question posed by Tam Dalyell, MP for the Scottish constituency of West Lothian during the debate over Scottish devolution in the 1970s, and which is still relevant after the 1999 establishment of the Scottish Parliament. ... 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: November 2004 in sports November 2004 in science Deaths in November • 30 Pierre Berton • 29 John Drew Barrymore • 26 Bill Alley • 24 Arthur Hailey • 23 Rafael Eitan • 18 Bobby Frank Cherry • 16 John Morgan • 13... In the United Kingdom, Passenger Transport Executives (PTEs) are local government bodies which are responsible for public transport within large urban areas. ... The Core Cities Group is an association of Englands eight major provincial cities which have come together to promote their common interests as regional capitals outside of London. ...

External links

• CityMayors feature on UK city regions
• NLGN report Seeing the Light? Next Step for City Regions (PDF)