Note 38 — Chapter III · THE ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF THE HUMAN COMMUNITY
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The close relation existing between the coal and iron areas and the location of modern industrial communities has frequently been pointed out. L. C. A. Knowles says: “Apart from special and exceptional circumstances industry in Europe and the United States tends to grow up within easy railway access to the great coal areas and on these areas the population is massed in towns” (The Industrial and Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain during the Nineteenth Century, p. 24).