Growth Centres in Spatial PlanningGrowth 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 modifi. |
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Growth Centres in Practice 23 2 2348 | 23 |
Urban Centres and the Diffusion of Innovations | 53 |
Urban Scale and Service Provision | 69 |
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