Abstract:

Spatially overgrowth of metropoles and their sprawl causes a new spatial form where the change and restructuring in the relations between center and peripheral restructuring is observed. This change/restructuring has caused a new socio-spatial structure defined as urban region which includes specialized settlements located at the periphery of the center/metropolis. In this context, urban regions comprise a center and the impact areas related to the functional relations of this center. In the literature on urban regions that has arisen during the 1980s, it has been emphasized that urban regions have developed a new spatial level with the help of networks built to increase the competitive power of isolated settlements and to share information and technology. Urban regions are defined as the spaces facilitating the during the transformation process from the spatial scales of the nation state to the new socio-spatial scales of the global structure. This study analyses urban region concept used to define contemporary spaces of national and international literature and explores new definitions referred to for current transformations

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