Progress in Planning 1999 (in press)
Sustainable Urban Growth in Peripheral Areas: Factors and Paradigms of Regional Planning
BORIS A. PORTNOV AND DAVID PEARLMUTTER
Center for Desert Architecture and Urban Planning
J.Blaustein Institute for Desert Research
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Sede-Boqer Campus, Israel 84990
Abstract
Introduction
1. Core vs. Periphery: Development Needs
Regional inequalities as a development issue
- Physical data
- Historical premises
- Economic premises
- Political premises
Patterns of population change
- Japan
- Israel
- Egypt
- China
- Sweden
Development policies
- Core-restricting policies
- Periphery-stimulating policies
Questions for urban and regional planning2. Development Peculiarities of Peripheral Urban Settlements
Peripheral settlements: exogenous factors
- Remoteness
- Spatial isolation
- Harsh climate
- Lack of previous development in the area
- Comparative advantages of peripheral areas
Development paradigms
- Economic development
- Migration attractiveness
- Resource consumption
- Concluding remarks: spatial frontier of development areas
3. Criteria of Sustainable Urban Growth
Urban growth: definitions of sustainabilityComponents of sustainable urban growth
- Environmental dimension
- Economic dimension
- Socio-demographic dimension
Indicators of sustainable population growth of urban settlementsResearch model
- Background study
- Cross-size comparison vs. time changes
- Growth paradigm
4. Influencing Factors
Long-term trends of population growth
- Definition of the samples
- Core vs. peripheral settlements: trends of growth
- Factors influencing rates of growth
- Data analysis
- Research results
Location-related peculiarities of urban growth: recent trends
- Method
- Estimation results
5. Development Strategies
Development clustersStrategy of redirecting prioritiesMaintaining the inter-regional balance and local incentivesBibliography
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