Preface
PART ONE: POLICY
1. Regional problems in socio-economic policy
2. Social planning in a regional framework
3. Normative problems and social issues in regional analysis
4. Regional policy and planning in social perspective: A planner's point of view
5. Regional policy as social planning
6. The impact of social organization and environment upon the time-use of individuals and households
7. Regional and environmental planning in social perspective
PART TWO: INTEGRATION
1. Welfare economics and the 'unified approach' to development planning
2. The city as development centre
3. A sociological concept of polarized development
4. Towards an operational definition of psychological distance
5. Social issues in regional policy and regional planning
1. Problems of social policies in regional planning: The experience of Poland
2. Social aspects of regional planning
3. Some social aspects of regional development in Latin America
4. Social disparities and regional policy in Britain
5. Urban planning and its impact on the quality of urban life in West European cities
6. Urbanisation, domestic planning problems and Swedish geographic research
PART FOUR: RESEARCH
1. The role of social equipment and environment in regional economic growth
2. A framework for dealing with the urban environment: Introductory statement
3. The urban-regional dimension in regional planning research
4. The integrated social science approach to regional planning in developing countries
5. Sociological aspects of regional development and of planning for regional development: Some issues and areas for further exploration
6. Regional or spatial sociology?
7. The sociological failure in regional planning: Comments on some recent publications in the field of sociology and planning
8. Prospects of regional sociology
Contributors
Acknowledgements