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...

1 The Importance of Implementation -- Implementation within the Planning Process -- Defining Failure in Implementation -- Defining the Planning Process -- Constraints on Implementation -- Methodological Issues -- Acknowledgements -- 2 The Accelerating Urbanization of Bangladesh -- Migration from...

An integrated model is proposed to capture economic and demographic interactions in a system of regions. This model links the interregional economic model of Isard (1960) and the interregional demographic model of Rogers (1975) via functions describing consumption and migration patterns....

This paper seeks an appropriate specification of the migration exchange between rural and urban areas so that the implied evolution of the degree of urbanization agrees with its commonly observed S-shape. After demonstrating that the gross migration flows between rural and urban areas should be...

As a country evolves from a traditional to an advanced society, the part of urban growth that is due to net immigration follows a simple pattern, which can be described by an inverted U-shaped curve: it first increases, then passes through a maximum, and decreases thereafter. This hypothesis is...