ABSTRACT
Considerable effort has been made within the regional branch of development studies to reformulate the framework of regional development theory. The space dimension—an essential ingredient in the contribution of regional studies to the understanding of development-confronts us with a similar basic issue. The chapter focuses on the "organization-production" and "articulation" schools of thought, both of which recognize but do not incorporate regional diversity of rural change. The discussion of macro-regional analysis centers on Smith, who tries to link various situations of social differentiation with different types of central place systems. In various regional situations, the result of the general tendency toward incorporation into the agroindustrial complex and area specialization is the development of capitalist agricultural or managed enterprises and the survival of peasant households. This chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
