For more than a decade now a number of debates have beentaking place within industrial geography. The period has been onein which issues of the geography of industry of the spatial form ofindustrial decline and growth have often been at the forefront ofwider political debate. And in the discipline of geography therehave been long discussions in conferences, seminar-rooms, books, journals and special reports on regional policy and whatform it should take, and on the rapid-fire series of policies for theinner-city in which 'solution' after 'solution' has been flung in thedirection of the latest a.