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Discuss the major approaches to functional classification of towns.

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Functional classification groups towns by the work their people do, on the argument that economic role, not size, explains why a settlement exists and whom it serves. Since every town is multi-functional, the problem is never what a town does but how to decide which activity is dominant, and by what stated rule. The approaches…

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  • The statistical approach: deviation from the norm
  • Nelson's standard-deviation method
  • Minimum requirements and the economic base
  • The multivariate approach
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