1. Weber ’ s model on industrial location

2. Explicit assumptions Natural resources Markets Labour Transport costs Unevenly distributed (ubiquitous/localized) Fixed On a plain Fixed Immobile unlimited supply At given wage rate Weight + distance of transport

3. Implicit assumptions Uniform surface Fixed capital Perfect competition Economic men

4. Cost factors affecting industrial locations Transport costs Labour costs Cost of proximity (agglomeration/deglomeration)

5. Varignon frame

6. Material Index total weight of localized raw materials used =--------------------------------- weight of finished products

7. Line graphs

8. Location triangle

9. Isodapane

10. Labour factor

11. the LTCL may not coincide with the cheapest labour site especially significant for attractive labour-intensive industries If the saving in labour cost is greater than the increase in transport cost, he will move to the cheap labour cost site

12. Labour factor Critical isodapane = transport cost at LTCL + labour cost savings at source of cheap labour If the source of cheap labour is inside the critical isodapane, the location is a profitable one (and vice versa).

13. Critical isodapane

14. Agglomeration factor

15. Further exercise