Infrastructure and Environment

bl ic Di sc lo su re A ut ho riz ed Pu bl ic Di sc lo su re A ut ho riz ed Pu bl ic Di sc lo su re A ut ho riz ed Pu bl ic Di sc lo su re A ut ho riz ed I POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER 3073 Where do industries locate within a metropolitan area? textiles, leather, printing/publishing, chemicals, metals, Do different industrial sectors have different patterns of machinery, and electricaVelectronics) for evidence of location/clustering? Can these patterns be understood global and local clustering, and distinguish between and with reference to industry characteristics? What is the test for co-clustering and co-location of industries. The geographical relationship between clusters of different results suggest an evolutionary model of industry types of industry? To what extent do localization location in mixed rather than specialized industrial economies influence the clustering process? These districts. There is little evidence of localization questions are investigated with geographically economies from labor markets or buyer-supplier disaggregated industry location and size data from networks. The authors suggest that land use policy is the Mumbai, Kolkata, and Chennai. Chakravorty, Koo, and key variable influencing the intra-metropolitan spatial Lall analyze eight industrial sectors (food/beverages, distribution of industry. This paper-a product of Infrastructure and Environment, Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to examine the role of spatial externalities in the concentration and performance of economic activities. This pape