The medium-size towns in the conurbations of the GDR represent the secondary knots in the settlement network and concentration points of population, industry and infrastructure. They are political, economic and intellectual-cultural centres
and therefore have significant caretaking and supplying functions for a certain fringe area. Importance and features of the secondary knots depend on their location within the settlement network and the size of the population. While the small medium-size towns
are located in the agglomeration and the fringe area, the large medium-size towns are usually placed in the distinctly marginal positions. The secondary knots are at present the focal points in the urbanization process. The medium-size towns provide good
conditions for their further development, due to their economic role, their potential labour force, their favourable infrastructural features and their resources, combined with advantageous relations of town location and fringe area.
Afrique du Sud ; Cape Town ; Chine ; Etude comparée ; Géographie humaine ; Morphologie urbaine ; Tianjin ; Ville coloniale
L'interprétation de la ville coloniale est soutenue par l'étude de Cape Town et de Tianjin. Les contrastes et les ressemblances de l'impact colonial sur les deux villes sont détaillés et expliqués dans leur contexte social et historique. Les
changements futurs dans Tianjin seront d'un caractère évolutif alors qu'à Cape Town ils pourraient bien être révolutionnaires.
The fill-in concept was devised to describe the process of migration from rural areas to small towns in Latin America. The paper argues that the concept is theoretically unsound and is normally indistinguishable as a pattern from direct and/or step
movements. Indeed, the patterns of migration to and from small towns are far more complex than those suggested by the fill-in concept. The limited evidence available suggests that return migration is considerable and that the selectivity of in-migrants
reduces the debilitative effects of out-migration on small town populations.
Accumulation spatial policies and the production of regional labour reserves: a study of Washington New town
Accumulation du capital ; Aménagement régional ; Bassin de main-d'oeuvre ; Capitalisme ; Emploi ; England ; Géographie humaine ; Royaume-Uni ; Rôle de l'Etat ; Surprofit ; Système économique ; Ville nouvelle ; Washington New Town
création de telles réserves par le biais des politiques d'aménagement. Etude de ces propositions à travers le développement de Washington New Town: contexte de planification dans lequel émergèrent les propositions de ville nouvelle, les mécanismes qui
offers a suitable possibility to estimate range and aims of settlement functions, 6 groups of towns, based on urban structure characteristics (volume of outgoing and ending traffic, number of inhabitants, commuters, commuting-balance, railway-and road
-connection, centrality of commerce, residents in town-proximity) are sorted out. These 6 groups of towns are characterized in detail and conclusions are drawn for further investigations. Examplified by the towns of the GDR.
Small towns in developing countries: potential centers of growth, transformation and integration in Equity with growth? Planning perspectives for small towns in developing countries.
Interlocking relations between small towns and their rural hinterlands in the Third World in Equity with growth? Planning perspectives for small towns in developing countries.