ABSTRACT
In the ‘isolated state’, each farmer could know the price he would get for any particular commodity and the cost he would incur in taking it to the market. In effect, he could derive the farmgate price for all goods and this price formed his own local datum. Important aspect of the ‘isolated state’, of which again much use can be made, was the introduction of a line of communications superior to the means of transport prevailing generally. At the small scale, any individual farm situated in the predominantly urban area has its own problems of spatial organization within its confines; it will remain advantageous to zone production within the holding, irrespective of the external relationships. The development of location studies has witnessed a traditional division between the study of agriculture based on some of the ideas of Johann Heinrich von Thunen and the study of industrial locations based on the approach of A. Weber.
