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On the spatial structure of organizations and the complexity of metropolitan interdependence

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Pred, A. On the spatial structure of organizations and the complexity of metropolitan interdependence. Papers of the Regional Science Association 35, 115–142 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01947472

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