Abstract

T IHE Federal Bureau of the Census defines a metropolitan area as one with a central or core city with at least fifty thousand inhabitants and secondary territory with at least fifty thousand more. Thus the metropolitan district is a collection of communities, incorporated or unincorporated, having a heavy density of population and entirely interdependent in its economic, social, and political operation. There are 140 such areas in the United States, and about half of the total population lives in these centers.

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