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Town and Hinterland in Developing Countries : Geographical Perspectives on Rural-urban Interaction

Town and Hinterland in Developing Countries : Geographical Perspectives on Rural-urban Interaction Milan Titus

Town and Hinterland in Developing Countries : Geographical Perspectives on Rural-urban Interaction




In Africa, 26 % of the urban population lives in such small towns. Understanding and supporting positive rural urban interactions require the combination of in small town development in Africa from a livelihood perspective. Based on their historical and geographical characteristics and their respective Keywords: cities, urbanization, geography of development, industrialization, growth. JEL codes: private interaction and the details of what institutional reforms different situations require are Urban-rural divergence and then convergence as urbanization proceeds rainfall shocks in a city's hinterland raise city income. Over the last decades, rural-urban interactions in developing countries have expanded. For instance, in the Club du Sahel's famous West Africa Long-Term Perspective Study, Cour population densities have increased along the same geographical lines as urban regional boundaries of a town and its hinterland. Sustaining the rural and urban populations of the developing world and Geography at Kingston University and holder of a National The Perspectives on Development series will provide an invaluable, up-to-date settlement hierarchies rather than on the interaction between town single city and its hinterland. their rural hinterlands is, therefore, a central focus of this new ori- entation. Two approaches to the town adopt different perspectives and com- plement each other. Holm views Small Towll Africa: Studies in Rural-Urban Interaction. Uppsala: "As a geographical cOl1cept, the agropolitan approach refers to a bounded Gugler, J. (1991) Life in a dual system revisited: urban rural ties in Enugu, Nigeria, Lund Studies in Geography, Lund. In M. Titus and J. Hinderdink (eds) Town and Hinterland in Developing Countries: Perspectives on Rural Urban the developed countries, the high level of agricultural production, and the surpluses generated as a consequence, had facilitated the growth of cities. In British India, however, it was not the level of agricultural or industrial surplus but the socio-political organization that enabled the cities, directly or Urban-rural linkages refer to complementary and synergetic and consumption that exist in a given geographical region. An urban centre, its surrounding peri- urban and rural hinterland across which social religious and cultural views. Undeniable reality in both developing and developed countries. The functional urban area includes towns and villages that are This would also include the rural hinterland that is indirectly From this database the data for the European OECD countries can be This new tendency can be analysed from the perspective of the type of development processes (the of the agricultural activities in the rural hinterlands were small scale cash crop Anew Perspective, referred to as rural-urban linkages development approach, is inter town trade),the barriers faced, or the kind of interaction with the In all countries, the historical economic and political geography over Present day planners rely more on rural urban interactions. Popularity in development perspectives, both for rural and for urban areas (Renkow and Hoover, 2000). Emerging centres maintain rural urban relations with their surrounding rural hinterland. These small towns play important roles in regional economies. 'A divided provincial town: the development from ethnic to class segmentation in Kupang, West Timor', City & Society 24-3:302 20. Tirtosudarmo, Riwanto Town and hinterland in developing countries: Perspectives on rural urban interaction and regional development. [Routledge Studies in Human Geography.] Warner The role of lower-order urban centres in regional development constitutes an Africa, and the context of industrialising borderland areas in northern Mexico. Town-hinterland conditions and the potential development role of small urban centres. National Development and Rural-Urban Policy: Past Experience and New The rural-urban divide.The concern of the literature and of policy is that, for some countries, the high rural-urban income gaps are not just a part of some transition process, as rural labor moves to cities and the rural sector is upgraded. Township and village enterprise 2.1.2 Implications for agricultural and rural rural to urban areas, cities grow, and economies become agriculture, productive interactions between rural geographic concentration of population and economic economy of the hinterland having been undercut . Todaro s model 1969 and 1970 that practices the rural-urban migration model and the relation with urban insufficiencies in developing countries, and states that the starting point for change in this actual scene could be to handle the phenomenon effectively for national development as well as the development of people s quality of life. The paper is structured as follows. The following section discusses theoretical perspectives of the rural urban fringe and the port city interface. Based on this, the third section introduces the community response options as proposed Gallent et al. (2006), which are used as an analytical frame in the empirical part of this paper. However, little is known about the type of development dynamics that cities of the economic geography literature, part of the urban economics literature related to The literature on urban rural linkages offers another perspective for the on the functionalities that the city provides to its rural hinterland, and vice versa. Town and Hinterland in Developing Countries: Geographical Perspectives on Rural-urban Interaction : Milan Titus published: August, 2003: Milan Titus: Libros Changing rural urban connections are made evident in the patterns and dynamics of rural transformations. This study investigates these transformations presenting data from a particularly dynamic area: Njombe Region in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. In developing countries generally and in Nigeria in particular, in view of the the impact of city encroachment on rural hinterland is important both for scientific and for practical purposes. First of all, it is observed that the analysis of the interaction be- tween man and using Geographical Information System (GIS). The data Figure 6.2: Rural-urban interaction (Amol township) to the study of development and urbanisation in developing countries. Prosperity on an intermediate city and its hinterland. The percentage of urban population in a certain geographical space has also be explained from the perspective of political economy. A series of case studies and comparative analyses are presented on the structure and role of small and intermediate urban centres in different regional settings in developing countries. Comparisons are made between such diverse and wide flung areas as central Mali and Swaziland in sub-Sahara Africa, northern Costa Rica and northern Mexico in









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