ABSTRACT
It is important to realize the close relations that exist between the city-region and the State. ‘There are’, writes an American economist, ‘all kinds of regions. But the regionalism that is of greatest importance is metropolitan. Here we have an area inhabited by producers and consumers who from a radius usually of over a hundred miles look to one big centre for marketing their products and serving their supplies’, and this region ‘has grown to be a potential rival of the State’. 1
