ABSTRACT
In the early 1900s Britain became an urban nation when, for the first time in global history, more people began living in cities than in the countryside. This was the result of the huge population shifts from the countryside generated by the industrial revolution that had begun in the late eighteenth century. (Population experts think that a majority of the global population for the first time live in cities in 2007.) This chapter discusses the changes that have taken place within the countryside in recent years and how these changes have inhibited recognition of exclusion in the countryside.
