Urban Area and Hinterland: Defining Large Cities in England, Scotland and Wales in terms of their constituent neighbourhoods
Published 24 June 2013
This note describes a method for defining the 'core urban area' and 'hinterland' of large and metropolitan cities in Britain. The definitions are made in terms of small-area ('neighbourhood') geographies used in standard Census and administrative statistics in each country (Lower Super Output Areas in England and Wales, Datazones in Scotland).
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