To a remarkable extent, students of location problems have
fastened attention upon industrial and urban matters rather than
upon agricultural and rural affairs. The preponderance of the
former studies undoubtedly reflects the relative importance of the
manufacturing and commercial sectors of the technically more
advanced countries where most students of location matters have in
the past resided. Perhaps it has also seemed that the locational
problems posed by city life and factory employment are more
amenable than those of the countryside to rigorous analysis.
One of the objectives in planning is to reduce the amount of
circulation necessary for the conduct of the normal business of
living. Geographers have for long claimed an interest in the
differences which exist between places and there is an increasing
awareness among them that many observable variations of phenomena
in space are attributable to relative locations rather than to the
intrinsic qualities of the individual places. In many other fields
of study and endeavour, such as economics and the organization of
retail trade, the problems associated with distance and circulation
are receiving increased attention; witness of this is given by
studies of the influence of distance upon international trading
patterns and the care taken in locating the large peri-urban
shopping centres which are being built in the United States.
This book will fill the gap. The account which follows does not
purport to cover all aspects of, and factors affecting, rural
settlement and land-use patterns of location: it is an essay in the
logical development of a closely related set of ideas. From the
analysis it is evident that certain themes recur at all scales of
consideration and under very diverse conditions of the physical
environment and of economic development. An attempt is made to
examine some of the practical conclusions, which emerge from the
argument.
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