Introduction

Manas Chatterji

Chapter 1 in Regional Science: Perspectives for the Future, 1997, pp 1-6 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It has been almost fifty years since regional science was born. That was an auspicious time. In economics and the other social sciences, a revolution was taking place. The emphasis was more along theoretical and mathematical lines and the advent of computers helped progress this development. The end of the Second World War and decolonization of the developing countries led to a new emphasis on geographical space. It followed the modern day transportation revolution. The role of time was already being captured through economic model building; regional science drew attention to space as one of the primary factors affecting human economic activity. Accordingly, some say that the appropriate name of the new discipline should have been Spatial Science. However, although this name would have captured the micro aspects of human interaction, the aggregate macro aspect would have been lost.

Keywords: Regional Science; Social Account; Customer Response; Trip Distribution; Human Economic Activity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25514-6_1

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