Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

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Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part three. The field of manufacture

Collection:: Economics Books

7° = 0 Modern Business Geography Fre. 175. A view of Moscow. the leading commercial city of Russia. The distribution of cities in Europe. We must remember, in con- sidering the location of cities in Europe, that many of them were great centers of trade and industry thousands of years before there was a single mile of railway in the world. And we must remember also that until modern times there was no advance in road building beyond what the Romans had done; indeed, in most parts of Europe roads were poorer than when the Roman Empire was at its height. Up to the nineteenth century, then, cities would naturally tend to be located where there was easy communication by water, and we may expect to find that they grew up along main routes of trade by sea and river. When railroads were first built, they branched out to connect nearby towns with the great centers, which thus became railroad cities as well as ports. Later, industries began to be established in districts where coal and iron could be mined ; for the work could be done cheaper where these two basic materials were at hand, and the products could be shipped out by rail from districts lacking in waterways. Thus we find in Europe two kinds of large cities; (1) historic cities with good communication by water; and (2) new industrial cities de- pendent chiefly on railways.

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