Regions in Question (Routledge Revivals): Space, Development Theory and Regional Policy

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Originally published in 1984, this book discusses the rapid growth of regional development planning, as both an academic specialism and a focus of policy and practice. Books and articles on the subject have proliferated, and all across the Third World governments have become commited to it, setting up large new departments and even ministries. Charles Gore argues that this growing popularity of regional planning in developing countries is profoundly paradoxical. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Orginal Title Page Dedication Orginal Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Series Editors' Preface Preface Introduction: Getting into space Context and Thesis Regional Science, Regional Economics and Theoretical Geography The Displacement of the Region The Dominance of the Spatial Separatist Theme The example of labour-supply reserves Scientific Knowledge and the Rationalization of Regional Planning The Organization of the Argument Part One: Common Regional Policy Objectives 1. Regional imbalance as a policy problem The Nature of General Spatial Equilibrium Bertil Ohlin and interregional income equalization August Lösch and hierarchical order in the ideal economic region Gunnar Myrdal and Cumulative Causation John Friedmann's Case for Regional Policy (1966) Spatial Equilibrium and Spatial Integration The Irrelevance of Spatial Equilibrium as a Norm 2. Growth, income distribution and spatial inequality The Trade-Off Between Aggregate Efficiency and Interregional Equity The Large City Problem The optimum city size debate Urban primacy from a national perspective The Thesis of Urban Bias The Nationalist Rhetoric of Spatial Reorganization Conclusion Part Two: Rival Regional Planning Strategies 3. Urban-industrial growth pole strategies and the diffusion of modernization The Original Meaning of the Growth Pole Concept The Transformation of the Growth Pole Concept in Regional Theory Two False Starts The 'pure' strategy of polarized development Albert Hirschman: the interregional transmission of growth The USA as an Ideal Type: (1) Jeffrey Williamson The USA as an Ideal Type: (2) John Friedmann (1966) Douglass North: regional exports and economic growth Harvey Perloff: industrial location, natural resources and regional growth Theodore Schultz: urban-industrial growth and agricultural incomes Friedmann's synthesis The USA as an Ideal Type: (3) Brian Berry The Dualist Perspective and the Geography of Modernization Conclusion 4. Some anti-theses: polarization and the development of underdevelopment The 'Failure' of Urban-Industrial Growth Pole Strategies John Friedmann, 1972: A 'General Theory' of Polarized Development André Gunder Frank's spatial image of the 'world capitalist system' David Slater: colonialism and the spatial structure of underdevelopment Milton Santos: The Shared Space Conclusion 5. Neo-populist regional development strategies The Question of National Development Strategy Urbanization Policies for Rural Development E. A. J. Johnson: market towns as rural growth centres USAID: the strategy of integrated regional development Selective Spatial Closure as a Regional Development Strategy Territorial Regional Planning and Development from Below The Example of Agropolitan Development Conclusion: Development Theory and Regional Theory Part Three: The Poverty of the Spatial Separatist Theme 6. Space and explanation in regional development theory Conceptions of Space The example of economic space The incomplete relational concept of space Space and Conceptions of Scientific Explanation Spatial Analysis of Polarized Development The spatial centre-periphery model Spatial diffusion analysis Spatial dependency analysis Functional Analysis The basic logic of functional explanation Functional explanation in regional development theory Functional explanation of spatial change Explanations Based on Analyses of Locational Behaviour Conclusion 7. The limits of spatial policy and territorial regional planning The Nature and Logical Basis of Spatial Policy The Potential Effects of Spatial Policy Territorial Regional Planning as an Alternative The Concept of Territorial Interests The Organic Conception of the Region Conclusion Conclusion: The state, development and regional planning practice The State, Territory and Power Development and Regional Planning Policy Formation in Developmentalist States Regional Policy Objectives and Regional Planning Strategies Reconsidered Regional Theory and Regional Planning Practice in Developmentalist States A Guide to Further Reading Bibliography Author Index Subject Index