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This article studies the relation between rural industry and urban service functions in Mälardalen and the Southeast of Sweden 1820-90. The conclusion is that the general dynamic influence of towns highlighted in many British studies cannot be found in Sweden. Despite an overall increase in trade, financial services and information during the nineteenth century, Swedish towns did not in general...

OBJECTIVE To examine the wellbeing of families of male mine-workers living in remote mining towns in Australia. METHODS Through an extensive review of available (but limited) social science literature on mining towns this paper explores and identifies the key social issues and problems of mining towns. Social science and health-related research are used to argue that there are several factors...

The life of Towns has become more important and greatly emphasized in recent years and this heralds the arrival of a new era when this type of settlements is introduced as major living and investment capacities. Therefore, it is necessary to study the different aspects of towns in order to plan and manage their development and answer the question about different decision-making mechanism in the...

Recent debate surrounding the future of country towns has raised the issue of the historical process of growth and decline in the small towns which service rural communities.2 To many, the current deterioration of country towns is symptomatic of the dominance of large urban centres and the indifference and neglect of government. The debate has generated many emotive responses which indicate tha...

This paper analyses the main causes of the growth in population and employment in urban areas in Australia. We find that two-thirds of the variations in growth rates between 1981 and 1991 are explained by four factors: an inland location, a reliance on primary sector production, a tourist orientation, and suburban growth. Tourism and suburban growth greatly increased both population and employm...