Industrial Location and Physical Planning in Pakistan

John Eddison
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John Eddison: Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan

The Pakistan Development Review, 1961, vol. 1, issue 1, 1-21

Abstract: The subject of industrial location, as an aspect of the economic development of the country, is one to which frequent references have been made in recent years by government officials and by the writers of newspaper editorials. During the period of the First Five Year Plan, the burden of such references was generally to the effect that further industrialization should be fostered in backward areas and that it should be discouraged or actually banned in Karachi, Lahore and other cities believed to be overcrowded or vulnerable from a defence point of view. More recently, the desire for the dispersal of industry and for the provision of jobs in less developed areas has led to the espousal of industrial estates as a means of solving the industrial location probleml .

Date: 1961
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