Metropolitan Areas--A Review of Three Recent Publications

The World's Mletropollitan A/ reas is the title of a small book by International Urban Research of the Institute of International Studies, Universities of California (Berkeley).' The editor and director is Kingsley Davis, but other members of -the staff who participated in this study are Suzanne R. Angelucci, Harley L. Browning, Richard L. Forstall, Jack I'. Gibbs, Gene B. Petersen, arid Thomas 0. Wilkinson. The present volume represents the results of part of a five-year research program by JUR which was supported by the Ford Foundation. This book provides a list of the metropolitan areas of the world with their total populations, and includes area definitions for most of then-. I t also analyzes the problems of delimiting areas and describes the procedures followed by the staff in definiing the metropolitan areas listed. Much careful study evidently has gone into this work and the results have real value for comparative urban research. The lack of any standard. for coimparing statistics for cities around the world has discouraged serious quanti

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