ABSTRACT
Enough has been said to demonstrate that old ‘town’ and ‘city’ will be, in truth, terms as obsolete as ‘mail coach’ . . . We may for our present purposes call these coming town provinces ‘urban regions’. Practically, by a process of confluence, the whole of Great Britain south of the Highlands seems destined to become such an urban region, laced all together not only by railway and telegraph, but by novel roads such as we forecast . . . and by a dense network of telephones, parcels delivery tubes, and the like nervous and arterial connections. It will certainly be a curious and varied region . . . perhaps rather more abundantly wooded, breaking continually into park and garden, and with everywhere a scattering of houses . . . the old antithesis will cease, the boundary lines will altogether disappear; it will become, indeed, merely a question of more of less populous.
