R.M. Haig, 'Towards an understanding of the Metropolis', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 40, 1925.
2.
For instance-J. Rannells , The core of the City, Philadelphia, 1956, and M. M. Webber, 'The urban place and non-place realm' in Explorations into Urban Structure, ed. D. L. Foley, University of Penna. Press, 1964.
3.
W.T.W. Morgan, The growth and functions of the general office district in the West End of London (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Northwestern University , Ill., 1960).
4.
The study was sponsored by the South East Economic Planning Council Committee on Research, and first appeared as research report S.E.E.P.C.(R) (66)24, submitted to the Council 28th November 1966.
5.
One grid cell in the vicinity of St Paul's contained 108 publishers (30 per cent of total) while another in Covent Garden contained 68 (18 per cent).
6.
These figures and others revealed in the study indicate that there has been a considerable amount of decentralisation independent of L.O.B., of which no record is obtained.
7.
Because of technological change, the 'mix' of activities characterising this sector changed considerably from date to date.
8.
Morgan, op. cit., dates this complex to the railway building era when civil engineers were a significant force in the parliamentary lobby for railway bills, as they could hope for major contracts from every bill reaching the statute books. Frequent visits to the House were required and because of the difficulties of movement in Victorian London, an office in Victoria Street was essential.
9.
M. Beesley, 'The birth and death of industrial establishments: experience in the W. Midlands connurbation', Journal of Industrial Economics , 4, 1958.
10.
The terminology is that adopted by Beesley, op. cit.
11.
B.J.L. Berry , 'Comparative mortality experience of small business in four Chicago communities', Background paper no. 4, Small Business Relocation Study, Centre for Urban Studies, Univ. Chicago, November 1966.
12.
A P.E.P. report on the economics of book publishing has demonstrated the difficulties faced by the new publisher who has to experiment with new editions without the steady income from reprints that support the larger firm; yet in spite of the problems, the challenge encourages many to take a chance . Planning, vol. 23, no. 329.
13.
'The aggregate of obsolete but well located buildings, whether on the fringes or in blighted spots within the C.B.D., act as incubators for the continual formation of new businesses ... when these establishments prosper and require more space they are likely to seek better accommodation and move on', J. Rannells : 'Approaches to the analysis of the city centre ', Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 27, 1961.
14.
'Of all those firms that moved into and then out of the Square during the last fifteen years, over half stayed less than two years.' (From unpublished seminar paper, Joint Unit for Planning Research, University College, London.)
15.
Kirstine Williams, 'The factual basis of office policy in S.E. England' (M.A. Town Planning thesis, University College, London).
16.
Of the larger publishing houses, Nelson moved from Paternoster Row to Covent Garden and then Mayfair, Cambridge 'anticipated' the bomb damage by moving to Euston Road in 1938, while Oxford survived the war and only moved to W.I in 1965.
17.
Consultancy is one of the most rapidly expanding fields of office activity. There are 160 management consultants listed in the current directory, compared with eight in 1951, three quarters of this increase coming in the last four years and the bulk of this scattered throughout W.I.
