ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in this book. The book provides the essential facts about industry so that town planners can develop their technique of planning for industry as successfully as they have already developed other aspects of urban planning. Industry at first sight is apparently so formless and so little subject to rule. And yet the apparently haphazard arrangement of industry in towns is often due to the severe prompting of economic circumstance. A town as an economic unit lives largely either by making things or trading in them, or both, and all other activities are subsidiary to these. If manufacture or trade decline, fewer houses and schools can be built, and if they decline beyond a certain point, the community starves. The strategists are the economists and the national planner concerned with the distribution of industry in the country as a whole.
