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 urban' 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.
- ISBN10 0080401686
- ISBN13 9780080401683
- Publish Date February 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2001
- Publish Country NL
- Publisher Elsevier Science & Technology
- Imprint Pergamon
- Format Paperback
- Pages 112
- Language English