Excerpt from The Structure of the Metropolitan Community: A Study of Dominance and Subdominance Since the hypothesis under study is a broad statement about the role of metropolitan centers in the organization Of an entire society, its validity cannot be tested on a small segment of land area or population. For this reason one entire nation, the United States, has been taken as an example of a technologically advanced society. It has been subjected to study by subdividing its entire area into metropolitan communities, and by abstracting patterns of population distribution from various groupings of these metropolitan communities and of their parts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.