Abstract
THE paper on “Location of Industry” which Mr. R. G. Glenday, economic adviser to the Federation of British Industries, delivered before the Royal Society of Arts on February 10, roundly challenges current views on the location of industry, including some expressed in the Barlow Report, but his emphasis on the background of change against which the problem of industrial location should be viewed cannot fail to be stimulating, although apart from its provocative ness his paper offers little in the way of constructive suggestion. Fundamentally, Mr. Glenday reminds us, the problem of locating a country's industries and urban centers is part of the larger problem of adjusting a population to its environment, and it is the exceptional rate of growth of populations and industries during the last century and a half that has given rise to so many acute economic problems to-day. He regards the closing of the channels of international movement, following on the disappearance of the geographical frontiers of the civilized world by the first decade of this century, as the major event responsible for bringing to a close the era of democracy and free capitalism in many parts of Europe.
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LOCATION OF INDUSTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN. Nature 151, 565–566 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151565b0
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