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“The crisis of the inner city” is a misnomer, “What exists in the nations inner urban areas are a set of wider social and economic problems which happen to be expressed spatially” Discuss  

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"The crisis of the inner city" is a misnomer, "What exists in the nations inner urban areas are a set of wider social and economic problems which happen to be expressed spatially" Discuss Once, inner cities were the industrial centres of the city. The city expanded with its main employers as the nuclei. Today the inner city is a base for leisure with shops, theatres, pubs, and restaurants their speciality. This change has left great areas of deprivation in many inner cities. This report will analyse if there really is a crisis in the inner cities. In Britain today, most inner city areas are aged. When industrialisation took place workers needed to live close to the factories as transport systems were non existent. Cheap terrace housing was built near city centres; most was cramped, unplanned and had only had basic amenities. As these houses fell into disrepair they became slums. After...

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