ABSTRACT
THERE is a very voluminous literature dealing with modern industrial cities, but a survey of it will show that the contents are mainly concerned with sociological or architectural aspects of city life. Problems of environmental control, of functional patterns and of distribution in general do not seem to interest the authors to any large degree. These aspects however are precisely those with which the geographer concerns himself; and in the present chapter I have tried to place before the reader the findings of geographers in these fields; and to draw some conclusions which will help him to acquire some idea of the general geographical pattern of the modern industrial city.
