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 |
Urban Centres and the Diffusion of Innovations | 53 |
Urban Scale and Service Provision | 69 |
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adoption agglomeration economies analysis attractive benefits Berry capital ceteris paribus Chap chapter cities commuting hinterland concentration context correlation costs decline diffusion of innovations distance Dublin East Anglia economic activity Economic Development economic growth economies of scale EFTA entrepreneurial innovations establish examine expansion extent external economies factors favour Galashiels geographical growth centres growth poles growth rates growth-centre policies Hansen Haverhill Ille-et-Vilaine important income increase indices industrial linkage inhabitants innovation diffusion inter-regional investment Keeble Kuklinski labour availability labour market Lancashire London major ment métropoles migration miles mobility Moray Firth Moseley move outmigration peripheral population potential programme prosperity proximity regional development regional planning relating relevant Review role sector service provision settlements small towns social spatial diffusion spatial pattern spread effects stimulate strategy Studies suggests suppliers theory Thetford thresholds tion U.S. Dollars urban centres urban growth urban hierarchy urban size urban systems urbanisation economies workers