ABSTRACT

Cities of developing countries, which have in the main only recently shaken off the shackles of a colonial era, are generally of the type described above. With the advent of industrialization, considerations regarding transportation and communication facilities, adequacy of public utilities, favourable market availability, trained and competent labour and so on, tend to draw industrial activities to these same locations. Furthermore, limited resources do not permit a spread of industrial endeavour to too many places at a time, and, more particularly, because initial investment in industrialization is heavy. Thus the number of towns and cities does not rapidly multiply in nev/ly emergent countries even after independence from foreign rule.