Growing small towns and peri-urban towns have distinctive change patterns from those evident in larger cities and suburbs. Rapid growth in a short period can influence identity through changing demographics, the changing history of a town, the manner and style of growth, impacts on agricultural hinterlands or new housing/building styles (among other things). Finding empirical ways to measure these trends can be elusive; however, finding a better way to understand how growth influences the identity of towns might enable policy makers and communities to better plan for the future.
Thanks for your answer, Hayder! There are many factors indeed - which is what's making this area so interesting for me. All the best
-Matt
the most important factors are changing land-use and the structural transformation of the worker groups in the small towns. in-fact , there could be empirical investigations featuring the commuter movements and interactions to indicate the transition happening in the fringes towns.
in particular the consumption pattern and changing behaviorism of the people in such settlement can be the direct evidence to exhibit the changing identity in the settlements.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230738894_Peri-Urban_to_Urban_Landscape_Patterns_Elucidation_through_Spatial_Metrics
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