ABSTRACT
Rapid population growth was characteristic of the major industrial cities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the 1950s and 1960s the conurbations, notably Greater London and Greater Manchester, were steadily losing population at a time when the population of their suburbanising hinterlands was increasing more rapidly than anywhere else in the United Kingdom. The different characteristics of movers and stayers, and the relative size of the two groups in the population, are of crucial importance in explaining patterns of movement and the case studies are therefore designed to incorporate this point. Not only was there little evidence of an integrated community structure in the areas of suburbanised countryside, either in terms of micro-spatial coexistence or social groupings, but there was also a clear indication of a balance of disadvantage for the indigenous population as a result of recent change.
