The Impact of Steel upon the Greater New York-Philadelphia Industrial Region

For a long time the inadequacy of the traditional Weberian agglomeration analysis1 has been fully recognized. Palander, in particular, has pointed up its shortcomings.2 More recently, a fresh and more general approach has been made by P. Sargant Florence and others.3 This approach, primarily an attempt to identify from processed census data meaningful geographical associations in industry, of necessity does not concern itself with the development of a theoretical framework.4