ABSTRACT
Sociologists and town planners and others have become acutely aware of the social difficulties which arise from a long daily journey to work due to the separation of dwellings and workplaces. The situation of urban centres is based very largely on industrial and commercial opportunities, though some regard must be had for the ease or otherwise of obtaining foodstuffs. Even when agricultural raw materials are included with foods, it remains true that in the majority of cases location with respect to agricultural supplies has very little influence on the location of the major urban areas, except in the broadest regional sense that fertile areas can support dense populations and vice versa. The method of presentation which has been adopted is to take a situation at a moment in time, when it may be assumed that techniques are unchanging, and to analyse the location patterns which occur.
