Unit 7 secondary sector

                                        Industrial Space

Industries are established in one place or another depending on several factors:

- Proximity to raw materials and energy sources.

-Proximity to the market and neighborhoods

- Availability of labor

-Access to means of transport

- Availability of financial support
- Existence of population
- Existence of means of comunication
- Economic development of the area and presence of other industries
- Aplication of policies that favour industralisation.

                                Types of industrial space 

Dispersed space: here, there are isolated and dispersed industries.

Grouped space: are the industrial areas on the periphery of cities and there are two types: industrial parks (that are located on the outskirts with factories, industrial plants, ware houses ... etc) and tecnology parks (that are industrial areas dedicated to high technology, research, development and innovation, with low enviromental impact.)