ABSTRACT
The concept of the city-region has been put forward as much for the purpose of creating regions as for simply describing regions. A nice distinction must be made between city-region and urban field. The town and the country form one unit, one variety of functional regions, which in Britain is called the urban field and which is essentially an economic relationship between the two. Dickinson writes of the city-region as a natural social unit, or community space-grouping, where the emphasis is on the social unit. Professor Hartshorne pointed out that some geographers are determined to define regions, in order to turn geography into a pure science complete with objects of study which will offer the possibility of generic concepts. In most parts of the world the geographer has been the first to name and attempt to define regions but, as in the case of the Moshav Ovdim, there are some areas where the regional consciousness of inhabitants came first.
