... works and landfill/waste sites, areas of work sites and urban by-passes, national motorways and service stations. ii. Environmental factors from the non-urban area. These are :- Further out into the rural areas theses buildings disappear to be replaced by farmland and country parks, near enough to the city for use by urban dwellers. These characteristics can be explained because of certain reasons, the main being a lack of space in the already urbanised areas for new growth and the relative cheapness of the land in the rural areas compared to the high rates of the city. This allows industries that need room for expansion and car parking ,etc to locate near to a large area of workforce and consumers while still having plenty of room for growth and not having to cope with high costs of rent, e.g. the supermarkets, office developments and business parks. The fact that motorways are also located out of town ...

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