How was urbanization a characteristic outcome of industrialization rather than a contributing factor?

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While urbanization and industrialization are interconnected, the tremendous growth of urban cities such as Manchester was a new phenomenon in the nineteenth century. There had been previous displacement of rural workers seeking new work opportunities in urban settings during periods of economic crisis throughout Europe. But industrialization more often created new towns in the nineteenth century, rather than the other way around. Factories were built in rural settings, close to water, and workers flooded to these new factory locations, which often did not have the resources to provide for a large labor force. Support industries to provide food, clothing, housing, stores for consumer goods, schools, and medical facilities all grew to match the increase in the population of these factories, often at astonishing rates. Sometimes, these rates were so rapid that cities did not have time to grow at the same rate to meet the needs of the dependent population, and crowding, lack of sanitation, and criminal activity resulted from the poor conditions.