Implementing urban development projects: A search for criteria for success
In: Third world planning review: TWPR, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 25-39
ISSN: 0142-7849
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In: Third world planning review: TWPR, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 25-39
ISSN: 0142-7849
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In: Habitat international: a journal for the study of human settlements, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 1-11
In: Third world planning review: TWPR, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 89
ISSN: 2058-1076
In: Third world planning review: TWPR, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 89
ISSN: 0142-7849
In: Habitat international: a journal for the study of human settlements, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 1-12
In: Urban studies, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 267-274
ISSN: 1360-063X
Urban centralisation within the developing world has resulted in numerous sectoral problems within major cities, such as congestion, migration, poor housing, unemployment and environmental deterioration. As a result, urban analysts have directed attention to the development of small and intermediate cities as one means of providing the necessary counterbalance to the development of primate cities. This paper examines the economic potential of small town development. What contributions can be expected from government investment at this level of the rural-urban interface? Is it possible to provide urban services at this lowest level of the urban hierarchy and if it can be done, what difference, if any, does it make to established rural-to-urban migration flows? Based on international experience, are some kinds of services more difficult to establish in small towns than others? To answer these questions, the experience of two countries is examined, selected from one of the regional development programmes in Malaysia and the ujamaa villagisation programme in Tanzania. The study concludes that necessary ingredients with a small town development programme include an appropriate agricultural policy as well as adequate consideration of the small town economic base. Also required is some element of self-reliance in the provision of local urban services. Without these components, such programmes are unlikely to have any significant effect upon current rural-to-urban migration flows.
In: Third world planning review: TWPR, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 431
ISSN: 2058-1076
In: Habitat international: a journal for the study of human settlements, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 29-39
In: Regional development dialogue: RDD ; an international journal focusing on Third World development problems, Band 4, S. 66-89
ISSN: 0250-6505
In: Public Administration and Development, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 148-159
ISSN: 1099-162X
In: Third world planning review: TWPR, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 113
ISSN: 2058-1076
In: Journal of administration overseas, Band 19, S. 148-159
ISSN: 0021-8472
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 135-145
ISSN: 1360-0591
In: Regional studies, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 135-145
ISSN: 0034-3404
In: Third world planning review: TWPR, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 459
ISSN: 0142-7849