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Small Town England: Population Change Among Small to Medium Sized Urban Areas, 1971-81 (Progress in Planning)
Small Town England Population Change Among Small to Medium Sized Urban Areas 197181 - Progress in Planning Author:John Shepherd, Peter Congdon This research has two aims. First it is an evaluation of a new and valuable set of census data for urban Britain. Secondly, it is a study of recent urbanisation processes in England. The data concerned are for census enumeration districts and tracts/parishes which, according to well-defined and consistently applied criteria, are 'irreversibly ur... more »ban' in character. Over 2,000 such urban areas were defined for Britain in 1981. The research describes the origins of OPCS/DOE urban areas and compares them with previous attempts to describe urban settlements on the basis of land use and discusses the value of treating them as a complement to definitions of urbanism based on functionality. For those who will use the new urban areas data for research and planning, it makes detailed assessment of census statistics derived from the enumeration district (1981) and change-file (1971-81) constitutions of urban areas. As an investigation into urbanisation processes, this study is a contribution to the debate on 'counter-urbanisation' in Britain.« less