Towards a Strategy of Growth Paths

G L Gaile
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G L Gaile: Department of Geography, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1977, vol. 9, issue 6, 675-679

Abstract: The paper considers the development of spatial investment strategies as a response to the problems of spatial inequality of development. It extends the formal logic of growth-center-based development to show that the conditions necessary for reducing intraregional development inequalities are highly unlikely under any center-based spatial investment strategy. The strategy of growth paths is introduced as an alternative. The strategy argues that urban-tied services can be mobilized along a path, which would allow for a more equitable and possibly more efficient provision of public services. Roads positively affect the transition to development of those in proximity to them. This has always been a passive benefit of transport development. The growth-path strategy speculates that this transition can be actively encouraged.

Date: 1977
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