1.   According to modernisation theory, the urban centre is the locus of population growth, mobility and integration.

2.   Any agricultural surplus would have been required to support the development of urban centres which in turn encouraged craft specialisation.

3.   As for the regionally-planned green field sites for development, they are usually placed near new urban centres deliberately to provide employment.

4.   Elsewhere, urban centres did not experience the anticipated post-war expansion in liberal adult education.

5.   For those who are not travelling by road, direct rail journeys are possible from most urban centres.

6.   Ideologically sound sisters moved to hard-to-let housing in depressed urban centres and sold their properties to hotels and banks.

7.   Secular, economic power gravitated towards the lowlands and to the urban centres in particular.

8.   The administration of each territory was finely tuned and certain aspects of it were recorded on clay tablets at the urban centres.

9.   The all-important production of silk, for example, remained located outside the big urban centres throughout the prewar years.