This work was originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., copyright 1971, 1975, and 1984. In 1999, copyright was transferred from Knopf to the Hoover Family Trust and Frank Giarratani. West Virginia University's Regional Research Institute is distributing this electronic version of the text...

To introduce the Web Book of Regional Science it is first necessary to explain the basics of the field o f Regional Science. For regional scientists, a region is in most instances a geographical area smaller than the nation in which it is found. So a region might be a city, a county, a group of...