1 The Problem and the Setting -- Regional Science as a Discipline -- Techniques of Regional Science -- Objective of the Book -- References -- 2 Analysis and Projection of Population and Income -- Definition of a Region -- Demographic Indexes -- Life Tables -- Makeham’s and Gompertz’s Formula...

1 A Location Model with Respect to Environmental Quality -- Statement of the Theorem -- Implications of the Model -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Proof of the Theorem -- 2 A Model of the Urbanization Process: An Application of Elementary Catastrophe Theory -- The Model -- An Implication for...

1 Background -- 2 Historical Development of Transportation Problems for the Poor in Rural Reaches -- 3 Rural Legislation or Rubrical Legerdemain -- 4 Factor Analysis and Evaluation of Worker Mobility Variables -- 5 Analysis of Mobility Disadvantages and Economic Deficiencies in Rural Georgia --...

1 Introduction -- 2 Demand and Regional Growth -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Export Base Model -- 2.3 A Keynesian-Type Growth Model -- 2.4 The Multiplier-Accelerator Model -- 2.5 The Harrod-Domar Model -- 2.6 Conclusions -- 3 Supply, Factor Mobility, and Regional Growth -- 3.1 Introduction --...

1. Introduction and Framework of Analysis -- 1.1 Scope and method -- 1.2 Two conceptual models of economic development -- 1.3 A functional view on the evolution of central place models -- 1.4 Conclusions and research strategy -- 2. Urban Population Distributions, Growth and Change, 1840–1970...