Download or read book Growth Centres in Spatial Planning written by Malcolm J. Moseley and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growth Centres in Spatial Planning examines the role of growth centers in spatial planning in terms of achieving the intended objectives. Intended objectives include improving a region's potential for adopting innovations, a saving in public investment on infrastructure, a more efficient pattern of service provision, a dissemination of growth impulses throughout the problem region, and the interception of would-be migrants from the region. More specifically, this book analyzes the extent to which growth-center policies are likely to attain these objectives and how such policies might be modified accordingly. This text consists of eight chapters and begins with an appraisal of growth-center theory and growth-center policy, along with the fundamental issues that are involved in putting such policies into practice. This is followed by a discussion on regional policies with a clear growth-center element in Scotland, Ireland, and France. The reader is then introduced to the link between urban centers and the diffusion of innovations; the degree to which the spatial concentration of investment is desirable in order to achieve the most economic pattern of service provision; and the role of spatial agglomeration in stimulating economic growth. The spatial impact of growth centers and the role of growth centers in generating, intercepting, and attracting migrants are also considered. This text concludes with a chapter that proposes some policy guidelines and directions for research. This book will be of interest to planners and policymakers involved in urban planning and regional development more generally.
Download or read book Spatial Impacts of Growth Centres written by Alexander Stewart Fotheringham and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spatial Impact of Growth Centres written by Malcolm J. Moseley and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spatial Impact of Growth Centers written by Chee-Wah Cheah and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Location in Space written by Peter E. Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Location in a simplified economic landscape. Empirical evidence of spatial order. A heterogeneous land surface. Spatial variations in transportation costs. Spatial variations in production costs. Demand, scale, and agglomeration. The decision-making process: a behavioral view. Economic development in time and space. Spatial imbalances in economic health: four case studies. Area development policies.
Download or read book The Spatial Reorganization of Development Around Growth Centers written by Gary L. Gaile and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development Planning and Spatial Structure written by Alan Gilbert and published by London ; New York : Wiley. This book was released on 1976 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph of original research articles on theoretical issues and empirical experience in the field of regional planning and urban planning for regional development in developing countries - includes a case study of the social implications of a family planning programme in India, and examines rural areas and urban areas communications, the relationship of migration and economic development, regional disparities, urbanization policy in Latin America, etc. Maps, references and statistical tables.
Download or read book Growth Centre Policy Within a Metropolitan Region written by Jebasingam Issace and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spatial Reorganization of Development Around Growth Centers written by Gary Lee Gaile and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Organization of Space in Developing Countries written by Edgar Augustus Jerome Johnson and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on the rational design of the rural areas and urban areas environment and the crucial importance thereof for sustained economic growth in developing countries - synthesizes the implications of various significant contributions to the economic theory of space, covers economic planning and regional planning, the inseparability of rural development and industrial development, etc., and includes case studies. Bibliography pp. 425 to 441, diagrams, maps and statistical tables.
Download or read book An Analysis of Spatial Patterns of Polarization in the Brandon and Dauphin Areas written by Yi-Chung Hsiue and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis represents a methodological investigation of the validity of the growth centre concept against the backdrop of S.W. Manitoba. Theoretically, the growth centre is very efficient planning instrument for regional development. In this respect, the grwoth centre can be treated as the cornerstone of an investment strategy involving the spatial concentration of investment and the accompanying reorganization or restructuring of geographic space. Furthermore, growth centre programmes can be used as means for realizing specific policy objectives relating to social welfare servicing. There is, however, a marked discrepancy between theory and actuality. This is manifested in the following queries: Do spontaneous growth centres exist? Do these growth centres really affect, either positively or negatively, the development of surrounding areas? If they do, then, what spatial patterns, if any, will be formed? The principal purposes of this thesis will be an attempt to unravel these questions in the aforementioned regional context, namely: (1) to examine whether or not 'growth centres' exist at Brandon and Dauphin respectively, (2) to examine the presumed repercussions of two opposing spill-over effects and, then, to consider the degree of growth transmission from Brandon and Dauphin to the surrounding rural areas, (3) to examine the spatial form of polarized growth around Brandon and Dauphin. In order to compare the effects of different analytic techniques and to get a more precise picture of the development surface in S.W. Manitoba, twelve different techniques, including unrotated and rotated factoring methods, were employed in this study to analyze the same set of data for S.W. Manitoba. The outputs from these factoring techniques were, in turn, regarded as development indexes for a series of cubic trend-surface analyses which were established to test the polarization hypothesis. Finding provided only equivocal support for the existence of development-response surfaces based on Manitoban spontaneous growth centres.
Download or read book An Analysis of the Processes of a Growth Centre s Spatial Impact a Case Study of Three Manufacturing Firms in Ilorin Nigeria written by Ariyo, Joseph Ayodele and published by 1978.. This book was released on 1978 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spatial Theory of Regional Development in Third World Countries written by Hŭi-yŏn Yi and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Spatial Planning written by Graham Haughton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial planning, strongly advocated by government and the profession, is intended to be more holistic, more strategic, more inclusive, more integrative and more attuned to sustainable development than previous approaches. In what the authors refer to as the New Spatial Planning, there is a fairly rapidly evolving maturity and sophistication in how strategies are developed and produced. Crucially, the authors argue that the reworked boundaries of spatial planning means that to understand it we need to look as much outside the formal system of practices of ‘planning’ as within it. Using a rich empirical resource base, this book takes a critical look at recent practices to see whether the new spatial planning is having the kinds of impacts its advocates would wish. Contributing to theoretical debates in planning, state restructuring and governance, it also outlines and critiques the contemporary practice of spatial planning. This book will have a place on the shelves of researchers and students interested in urban/regional studies, politics and planning studies.
Download or read book Jump Starting America written by Jonathan Gruber and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen—and how we can do it again. The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite different. Job opportunities and economic growth are increasingly concentrated in a few crowded coastal enclaves. Corporations and investors are disproportionately developing technologies that benefit the wealthiest Americans in the most prosperous areas -- and destroying middle class jobs elsewhere. To turn this tide, we must look to a brilliant and all-but-forgotten American success story and embark on a plan that will create the industries of the future -- and the jobs that go with them. Beginning in 1940, massive public investment generated breakthroughs in science and technology that first helped win WWII and then created the most successful economy the world has ever seen. Private enterprise then built on these breakthroughs to create new industries -- such as radar, jet engines, digital computers, mobile telecommunications, life-saving medicines, and the internet-- that became the catalyst for broader economic growth that generated millions of good jobs. We lifted almost all boats, not just the yachts. Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson tell the story of this first American growth engine and provide the blueprint for a second. It's a visionary, pragmatic, sure-to-be controversial plan that will lead to job growth and a new American economy in places now left behind.
Download or read book The Geography of Transport Systems written by Jean-Paul Rodrigue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geographical attributes. Transport systems composed of infrastructures, modes and terminals are so embedded in the socio-economic life of individuals, institutions and corporations that they are often invisible to the consumer. This is paradoxical as the perceived invisibility of transportation is derived from its efficiency. Understanding how mobility is linked with geography is main the purpose of this book. The third edition of The Geography of Transport Systems has been revised and updated to provide an overview of the spatial aspects of transportation. This text provides greater discussion of security, energy, green logistics, as well as new and updated case studies, a revised content structure, and new figures. Each chapter covers a specific conceptual dimension including networks, modes, terminals, freight transportation, urban transportation and environmental impacts. A final chapter contains core methodologies linked with transport geography such as accessibility, spatial interactions, graph theory and Geographic Information Systems for transportation (GIS-T). This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field, with a broad overview of its concepts, methods, and areas of application. The accompanying website for this text contains a useful additional material, including digital maps, PowerPoint slides, databases, and links to further reading and websites. The website can be accessed at: http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans This text is an essential resource for undergraduates studying transport geography, as well as those interest in economic and urban geography, transport planning and engineering.
Download or read book U S Health in International Perspective written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.
