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Explain why high-tech industries in many countries are being attracted to the peripheral areas of major metropolitan centres? 

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1.  Land is generally cheap in the peripheral areas of the cities and is available in abundance. Single story buildings can be built. 

2.  The peripheral areas can be well connected with roadway and railway network used by high tech industries.

3.  Cheap and skilled labour is easily available from the nearby areas.

4.  Highly skilled specialists and professionals are available in major metropolitan centres.

5.  The features of high tech industrial landscape are neatly spaced, low, modern, dispersed office plant-lab buildings for which the peripheral areas of the cities are most suited. 

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