Spatial Concerns In Development

Author : K. Locana Gunaratna
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 8126905786

Get Book

Spatial Concerns in Development by K. Locana Gunaratna Pdf

The Book Spatial Concerns In Development: A Sri Lankan Perspective, Based On Analyses Of Experiences Gained With Various Aspects Of The Development Effort In The Country, Focuses On Spatial Concerns In National Development.The Book Provides A Brief Sketch Of The Spatial Context Within Which Indigenous Development Efforts Began In The Early 20Th Century. It Closely Examines The Sri Lankan Development Strategy And Policies Implemented Over A Seventy-Year Period, Beginning With The Introduction Of The Donoughmore Constitution In 1931. It Not Only Traces The Evolution Of The City Of Colombo Over Its Five Centuries Of Existence But Also Attempts To Look Into The City S Future. The Chapter Dealing With The Country S Massive Phased Effort To Develop The Resources Of The Mahaveli Ganga Basin And Related Region Is Analytic And Highly Informative. The Reader-Friendly Approach To The Subject, Well Illustrated With Figures And Tables, Makes The Book All The More Accessible.The Book Is A Valuable Addition To The Literature On Spatial Development In The Third World. It Would Be Highly Useful For Planning Professionals, Social Scientists As Well As For Architects.

Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110661035

Get Book

Towards a New Role for Spatial Planning by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Pdf

This volume is based on two international seminars oranised by the OECD and the National Land Agency, Japan which examines the emerging consensus concerning a new strategic mode for spatial policy.

Author : Hansjörg Drewello,Bernd Scholl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319157085

Get Book

Integrated Spatial and Transport Infrastructure Development by Hansjörg Drewello,Bernd Scholl Pdf

The challenge of growth in transport, especially in freight transport, and scarce resources in money, landscape and local opposition against new infrastructure investment require new solutions from transport policy. This book deals with these issues taking as an example the transport corridor Rotterdam-Genoa, one of the most heavily used in Europe. In 2010 the INTERREG project Code24 with partners from five European countries started with the aim to develop a transnational strategy to strengthen and to develop the corridor. The main objective was to accelerate and jointly develop the transport capacity of the entire corridor by ensuring optimal economic benefits and spatial integration while reducing negative impacts on the environment at local and regional level. These issues are highlighted in the book from an interdisciplinary perspective, taking into account spatial, economic, environmental and political aspects.

Author : Nora Newcombe,Janellen Huttenlocher
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0262640503

Get Book

Making Space by Nora Newcombe,Janellen Huttenlocher Pdf

Argues for an interactionist approach to spatial development that incorporates and integrates essential insights of the Piaget, Nativist, and Vygotskyan approaches.

Author : Ashok K. Dutt,Allen G. Noble,Frank J. Costa,Rajiv R. Thakur,Sudhir K. Thakur
Publisher : Springer
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401797863

Get Book

Spatial Diversity and Dynamics in Resources and Urban Development by Ashok K. Dutt,Allen G. Noble,Frank J. Costa,Rajiv R. Thakur,Sudhir K. Thakur Pdf

This double-volume work focuses on socio-demographics and the use of such data to support strategic resource management and planning initiatives. Papers go beyond explanations of methods, technique and traditional applications to explore new intersections in the dynamic relationship between the utilization and management of resources, and urban development. International authors explore numerous experiences, characteristics of development and decision-making influences from across Asia and Southeast Asia, as well as recounting examples from America and Africa. Papers propound techniques and methods used in geographical research such as support vector machines, socio-economic correlates and travel behaviour analysis. In this volume the contributors examine cutting-edge theories explaining diversity and dynamics in urban development. Topics covered include human vulnerability to hazards, space and urban problematic, assessment and evaluation of regional urban systems and structures and urban transformations as a result of structural change, economic development and underdevelopment. The significance of these topics lie in the pace and volume of change as is happening in geography reflecting continued development within established fields of inquiry and the introduction of significantly new approaches during the last decade. Readers are invited to consider the dynamics of spatial expansion of urban areas and economic development, and to explore conceptual discussion of the innovations in and challenges on urbanization processes, urban spaces themselves and both resource management and environmental management. Together, the two volumes contribute to the interdisciplinary literature on regional resources and urban development by collating recent research with geography at its core. Scholars of urban geography, human geography, urbanism and sustainable development will be particularly interested in this book.

Author : Robert Cohen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134926732

Get Book

The Development of Spatial Cognition by Robert Cohen Pdf

First published in 1985. The present book represents a statement of the state of the art in a very important aspect of spatial cognition, its development.

Author : Graham Haughton,Dave Counsell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 041531464X

Get Book

Regions, Spatial Strategies, and Sustainable Development by Graham Haughton,Dave Counsell Pdf

This book focuses on recent regional policy and planning debates in all the English regions.

Author : Neil Adams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317069102

Get Book

Regional Development and Spatial Planning in an Enlarged European Union by Neil Adams Pdf

The expansion of the European Union in 2004 has had significant consequences for both existing and new members of the Union. New member states are assimilating into a new institutional and policy framework, while the changing geography of Europe provides a different context for policy development in pre-2004 member states. One of the more important fields in which these changes are impacting is regional development. The admission of the new countries changes patterns of economic and social disparities across the territory of the European Union, which in turn demands that existing approaches to regional development are reconsidered. An approach which has proved to be one of the most innovative is spatial planning. This book brings together a team of academics and policy makers from across the new Europe involved in regional development and spatial planning. Providing insights into different approaches, it offers a valuable opportunity to compare experiences across European borders.

Author : Ravi Kanbur,Anthony J. Venables
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191535303

Get Book

Spatial Inequality and Development by Ravi Kanbur,Anthony J. Venables Pdf

What exactly is spatial inequality? Why does it matter? And what should be the policy response to it? These questions have become important in recent years as the spatial dimensions of inequality have begun to attract considerable policy interest. In China, Russia, India, Mexico, and South Africa, as well as most other developing and transition economies, spatial and regional inequality - of economic activity, incomes, and social indicators - is on the increase. Spatial inequality is a dimension of overall inequality, but it has added significance when spatial and regional divisions align with political and ethnic tensions to undermine social and political stability. Also important in the policy debate is a perceived sense that increasing internal spatial inequality is related to greater openness of economies, and to globalization in general. Despite these important concerns, there is remarkably little systematic documentation of what has happened to spatial and regional inequality over the last twenty years. Correspondingly, there is insufficient understanding of the determinants of internal spatial inequality. This volume attempts to answer the questions posed above, drawing on data from twenty-five countries from all regions of the world. They bring together perspectives and expertise in development economics and in economic geography and form a well-researched introduction to an area of growing analytical and policy importance.

Author : Malcolm J. Moseley
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483158532

Get Book

Growth Centres in Spatial Planning by Malcolm J. Moseley Pdf

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.

Author : Heikki Jussila,Roser Majoral
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351724814

Get Book

Sustainable Development and Geographical Space by Heikki Jussila,Roser Majoral Pdf

This title was first published in 2002: While world-wide political, sociological and economic processes encourage the marginalization of peripheral areas, the general degradation of the ecosystem increasingly affects marginal populations as they are more likely to use natural resources. The fact that these communities suffer greatly from environmental, economic and social problems also tends to prevent them adopting a sustainable use of these local resources. Using a series of international case studies from both developed and developing countries, this remarkable volume explores issues of sustainable development in marginalized regions of the world. It discusses population development and sustainability, as well as environment and sustainability, from the point of view of regional development. It also examines globalization and the role of education in encouraging a sustainable path of development. A common focus shared by the contributors is that of the human aspects of development, as well as the concept of sustainability and its usefulness in geographical and economic research. The volume provides an insightful overview of the issues that touch sustainability in marginal and critical regions.

Author : Eva-Maria Graf
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3823362550

Get Book

The Ontogenetic Development of Literal and Metaphorical Space in Language by Eva-Maria Graf Pdf

Author : Pier Carlo Palermo,Davide Ponzini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134632619

Get Book

Place-making and Urban Development by Pier Carlo Palermo,Davide Ponzini Pdf

The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of public space with the intense involvement of local communities seems to be the central focus of place-making according to some widespread practices in academic and professional circles. Recently, new expertise maintains that place-making could be an innovative and potentially autonomous field, competing with more traditional disciplines like urban planning, urban design, architecture and others. This book affirms that the question of 'making better places for people' should be understood in a broader sense, as a symptom of the non-contingent limitations of the urban and spatial disciplines. It maintains that research should not be oriented only towards new technical or merely formal solutions but rather towards the profound rethinking of disciplinary paradigms. In the fields of urban planning, urban design and policy-making, the challenge of place-making provides scholars and practitioners a great opportunity for a much-needed critical review. Only the substantial reappraisal of long-standing (technical, cultural, institutional and social) premises and perspectives can truly improve place-making practices. The pressing need for place-making implies trespassing undue disciplinary boundaries and experimenting a place-based approach that can innovate and integrate planning regulations, strategic spatial visioning and urban development projects. Moreover, the place-making challenge compels urban experts and policy-makers to critically reflect upon the physical and social contexts of their interventions. In this sense, facing place-making today is a way to renew the civic and social role of urban planning and urban design.

Author : John Glasson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351755900

Get Book

Contemporary Issues in Regional Planning by John Glasson Pdf

This title was first published in 2002: Regional planning and government in the UK is undergoing a period of tremendous activity, with a wide range of new policies, innovative techniques and experiments being tested. This volume provides an overview of developments, describing and analyzing the legislative, political and economic contexts within which changes are occurring, and assessing the continuing difficulties that face planners and others operating in the new arrangements for regional planning

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264189928

Get Book

Towards a New Role for Spatial Planning by OECD Pdf

This volume is based on two international seminars oranised by the OECD and the National Land Agency, Japan which examines the emerging consensus concerning a new strategic mode for spatial policy.