ABSTRACT
One of the classic statements on metropolitanism—McKenzie's Metropolitan Community (1933)—developed the idea of a metropolis primarily in terms of the large city which "dominates" its hinterland. The emphasis on metropolis-hinterland relationships within the metropolitan community was carried over into Bogue's (1949) influential monograph on metropolitan dominance. In his study, dominance, regarded as a "special kind of control over a community of inter-functioning units," was inferred from gradients describing the change in population density and intensity of broad classes of "sustenance activities" with distance from the metropolitan center.
