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SOCIOLOGY
URBAN REGIONS
Social Class
Race
Gender
Ethnicity
Age
Socio Spatial Perspective
Mix of Cities
Suburbs
Vacant Spaces
Industrial Parks
Intensely Farmed Agricultural Lands
Shopping Malls
Recreational Areas
All of which are interconnected and bridged by communication and
commuter networks including;
Highways
Rail
Telecommunications
Satellite or cellular based links
Satellite Image of the United States at Night Showing Metropolitan Areas.
SOURCE: NASA.
Lewis Mumford
The expanding regions of urbanization that are associated with an ever-changing array of cities,
towns, suburbs, and exurban areas.