Regional Development And Settlement Policy (Routledge Library Editions: Urban And Regional Economics)

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Some causes -- The objectives and structure of this book -- Part I: The emergence of spatial planning: 1930s to 1960s -- 1 Background to the emergence of spatial planning -- Major forces and influences -- Major growth theories -- Note -- 2 Implications for settlement policy -- The initiation and diffusion of development -- Application to policy -- Notes -- Part II: Changingfocus: developments in spatial planning since 1970 -- 3 Background: major forces and influences -- Contextual forces and conditions -- Intellectual forces and conditions -- Major consequences of the forces and influences -- Notes -- 4 Changing focus of development planning andimplications for settlement planning -- Redistribution through growth -- Basic needs approaches -- Agropolitan development and selective territorial closure -- Accelerated growth approaches -- Recent attempts to mesh policy approaches -- Note -- Part III: Differences and debates relating to settlement policy -- 5 Major debates -- Debates relating to the largest urban centres -- Debates relating to the development of a functional hierarchy of settlements -- Debates relating to small urban settlements -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Index

• | Author: David Dewar, Vanessa Watson, Alison Todes
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Aug 29, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 186 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 113810194X
• | ISBN-13: 9781138101944