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Towards a Strategy of Growth Paths

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  • G L Gaile

    (Department of Geography, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201, USA)

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The paper considers the development of spatial investment strategies as a response to the problems of spatial inequality of development. It extends the formal logic of growth-center-based development to show that the conditions necessary for reducing intraregional development inequalities are highly unlikely under any center-based spatial investment strategy. The strategy of growth paths is introduced as an alternative. The strategy argues that urban-tied services can be mobilized along a path, which would allow for a more equitable and possibly more efficient provision of public services. Roads positively affect the transition to development of those in proximity to them. This has always been a passive benefit of transport development. The growth-path strategy speculates that this transition can be actively encouraged.

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  • G L Gaile, 1977. "Towards a Strategy of Growth Paths," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 9(6), pages 675-679, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:9:y:1977:i:6:p:675-679
    DOI: 10.1068/a090675
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