Regional Analysis
Economic Systems
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Regional Analysis, Volume I: Economic Systems explores the interconnectedness of economic and social systems as they exist and develop in territorial-environmental systems. This volume concentrates on developing and refining models of trade and urban evolution, emphasizing evolutionary models and relationship between economic and political subsystems in the developmental process. Topics include the regional approach to economic systems; trade, markets, and urban centers in developing regions; spatio-economic organization in complex regional systems; and economic consequences of regional system organization. This publication is valuable to social and regional scientists, geographers, economists, social anthropologists, archeologists, sociologists, and political scientists interested in the implications of rural-urban relations and regional settlement patterns.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Contents of Volume II
Section A Introduction: The Regional Approach to Economic Systems
Chapter 1 Regional Economic Systems: Linking Geographical Models and Socioeconomic Problems
The Thunen Model of Land Use
Central-Place Theory
Urban Central-Place Patterns
Rural Marketing Systems—Some Irregular Types
The Origin and Evolution of Markets and Central-Place Systems
Economic Development
Summary and Conclusions
References
Section B Trade, Markets, and Urban Centers in Developing Regions
Chapter 2 Periodic Trade in Developing Areas without Markets
Introduction
Conditions for Mobile Retailing
The Cost of a Good
The Attractiveness of a Good
A Model of Mobile Retailing
Periodicity of Demand
Mobile Retailing in the Demand Area of Fixed Stores
Stages in the Development of Periodic Trading Systems
The Demand for Goods
The Supply of Traders
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3 Contemporary Market Periodicity in Highland Ecuador
Highland Ecuador
Day-to-Day Variations in Market Activity
Spatiotemporal Aspects of Market Periodicity
Conclusions
References
Chapter 4 Periodic Markets and Urban Development in Southern Ghana
Emergence of the Marketing System
Contemporary Spatial and Functional Systems
Emergence of the Urban System
Administrative Parallels
Conclusions
References
Chapter 5 The Role of Urban Food Needs in Regional Development, Puno, Peru
The Region
Supply, Demand, and Early Market Foundation
The Pre-1940 Marketing Pattern
Contemporary Patterns—A Market Hierarchy
Effects of Market Evolution in One Subregion
Summary and Conclusion
References
Section C Spatioeconomic Organization in Complex Regional Systems
Chapter 6 Specific Central-Place Models for an Evolving System of Market Towns on the Changhua Plain, Taiwan
Introduction
The Present
The Past
Explanations
General Central-Place Models
Specific Central-Place Models for Changhua
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7 Dendritic Central-Place Systems and the Regional Organization of Navajo Trading Posts
The Dendritic System Model: An Alternative to Central-Place Theory
Dendritic System Types
Applying the Dendritic System Model to the Navajo Region
Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 8 Causes and Consequences of Central-Place Types in Western Guatemala
The Problem
The Model
The Region and the Local Systems
Grouping the Local Systems
Testing The Models
Conclusions about the Region
Conclusions about Central-Place Theory
Appendix
References
Section D Economic Consequences of Regional System Organization
Chapter 9 Some Economic Dimensions of Agricultural Marketing Research
Farm Marketing in Tropical Africa
The Areas of Study
Conceptual Framework
Effectiveness of the Methodologies
General Implications
References
Chapter 10 Mobility Strategies in Late Imperial China: A Regional Systems Analysis
Central Places and Regional Systems
Sojourning and Mobility
Academic and Administrative Talent
Entrepreneurial Talent
Craft and Service Specializations
Miscellaneous Specializations
Conclusions
References
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 388
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 1976
- Published: July 28, 1976
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9781483220253