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The authors have made what could have been a very dry statistical monograph into a fascinating description of how British society is changing rapidly at the beginning of the millennium. Choice

"""... a compendium of facts that will have anyone interested in policy flipping through, manically, as well as wagging their fingers at their friends demanding 'did you know...?' From the precipitate rise of single living in London, Nottingham and Glasgow to the nation's unshakeable addiction to commuting by car - it is all here."" Audacity ""... as handy a reference as they come."" Regeneration & Renewal ""... extremely readable and engaging ... People and places is an interesting and visually impressive publication."" Environment and Planning A"

""... a compendium of facts that will have anyone interested in policy flipping through, manically, as well as wagging their fingers at their friends demanding 'did you know...?' From the precipitate rise of single living in London, Nottingham and Glasgow to the nation's unshakeable addiction to commuting by car - it is all here."" Audacity ""... as handy a reference as they come."" Regeneration & Renewal ""... extremely readable and engaging ... People and places is an interesting and visually impressive publication."" Environment and Planning A

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Daniel Dorling is Professor of Human Geography at the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield. He has published several atlases and books on the population of Britain, including The new social atlas of Britain on the 1991 Census. This is the first comprehensive work he has carried out on the 2001 Census. Bethan Thomas is a Researcher at the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield. She recently completed her PhD at the University of Leeds. She is currently working on projecting population characteristics into the future and on the analysis of 15 million historical records of mortality data, official government surveys and flow data from various censuses.

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