A Growth Map for the Manchester Region

Gff ROWTH maps have been pub-lished for Edinburgh, Leeds, Plymouth, Cambridge, and on a small scale for London; (Edinburgh: J. Bartholomew, Scot. Geog. Mag. 1919; Leeds: W. T. Lanchashire, Brit. Assocn. Handbook, Leeds, 1927; Plymouth: Shorter and Woodley, Geography, Vol. 22, 1937, p. 293; Cambridge: Mitchell, Brit. Assocn. Report, 1938, Appendix p. 162; London: I.C.C., Growth of Greater London, No. 3442, 1939. See also the writer's A Growth Map for Northeast London during the Railway Age, Geog. Rev., July, 1945, p. 458) but one feels that they have been regarded as little more than a curiosity; at all events, excepting perhaps in case of Cambridge, little attempt has been made to provide reasoned interpretation of the features portrayed. Yet a growth map provides a useful summary of ways in which settlements have risen and flourished or decayed, and shows how their shapes have been affected or even moulded by physical and human environments

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