| dc.creator | Gaile, Gary L. | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-11T14:15:54Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-11T14:15:54Z | |
| dc.date | 1975-02 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T12:58:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T12:58:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Gaile, Gary L. (1975) Notes on the concept of spread. Discussion Paper 219, Nairobi: Institiute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/636 | |
| dc.identifier | 318199 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1920 | |
| dc.description | The concept of spread is widely used in regional planning
and is integral to the strategy of growth centres. In this paper the
author attempts to define, analyse and clarify the concept. After a
review of the classical antecedents of the concept, the formative
statements of Myrdal, Hirschman and Hoselitz are discussed and
compared. Elements of controversy are delineated. To assess the current
state of knowledge, fourteen current works are systematically analysed
along with the three formative studies. Separate analyses of theoretical,
methodological and case-study-implementation approaches are followed
by a discussion of a series of attributes of the selected studies.
The role of diffusion in the spread concept is inspected and the spread-backwash
dichotomy is critically assessed. In conclusion, the concept of
spread is restated by specifying the processes which are elemental to
spread and delineating factors which influence the extent of coreperiphery
spatial relationships. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion Papers;219 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Economic Development | |
| dc.title | Notes on the concept of spread | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
