ABSTRACT

Originally published in1984. Regional development planning has grown rapidly in recent years, as both an academic specialism and a focus of policy and practice. Books and articles on the subject have proliferated, and all across the Third World governments have become commited to it, setting up large new departments and even ministries. Charles Gore argues that this growing popularity of regional planning in developing countries is profoundly paradoxical.

chapter |21 pages

Introduction

Getting into space

part 1|56 pages

Common Regional Policy Objectives

part 2|93 pages

Rival Regional Planning Strategies

chapter 4|28 pages

Some anti-theses

Polarization and the development of underdevelopment

part 3|92 pages

The Poverty of the Spatial Separatist Theme