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Conceptualising patterns of spatial flows: Five decades of advances in the definition and use of functional regions Cover

Conceptualising patterns of spatial flows: Five decades of advances in the definition and use of functional regions

By: Pavel Klapka and  Marián Halás  
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|Jul 2016

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