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... Introduction Towns provide for the surrounding population a mixture of goods and services for the consumer (people). A large town fits into the urban hierarchy above a small town and below a mega city. The services provided in a town or any other urban settlements are based apon the threshold population (this is the minimum number of people required to support the service so it remains profitable. In the UK the number of people required to open and keep a shop open are the following: For a village shop it needs 300 people who live in the area. For a large store it needs 100,000 people who live in the area the larger the settlement, the more services are needed to provide for the population. This is called the range. FIG 1. shows the hierarchy based upon the services. FIG 1. Major shopping centre. Several central covered centre
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