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Examines the process of cooperation, competition and control in regional economic development. Specialized interdependence in a regional economy and its role in generating economic activity; Correlation of space, time and iterative exchanges; Use of an evolutionary model of cooperation to assess the vitality of industrial development in particular regions.

Contrary to the writings of academicians and journalists, college students from most sections of the country perceive the Middle West to have its core in Nebraska and Kansas, In a 1980 survey, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio seldom were seen as part of the region except by their own residents. Business and organization names using the term Middle West also are at their greatest relative frequency in the plains states, matching the collegiate perceptions. Regional images provide an explanation for the cognitive map patterns. Americans view the Middle West overwhelmingly in rural, small town terms. Even residents of the industrialized states of the Old Northwest hold this view. Pastoralism apparently has been so much a part of the regional and national identity that people find the idea difficult to abandon. Rather than changing the regional image to fit urban-industrial reality, the public has shifted the regional core westward to the Great Plains where rural society is more dominant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines how an areas development milieu affects the various components of the migration process. After reviewing the literature on migration-development interrelationships, we employ conventional statistical modeling to understand movement among Costa Rican cantons during a live-year period (1968-73). This is done for the country as a whole, enabling cross-national comparisons with earlier studies, and for urban-to-urban. urban-lo-rural. rural-to-urban, and rural-to-rural streams, which are compared with one another. The results indicate that the models describe urban-based migrations better than rural-based ones; variables closely associated with the market economy have a weaker role in rural settings: and push factors of migration are as important as pull factors. Finally, the spatial pattern of variation in migration processes is consistent with core-periphery development models and with earlier observations of an urban bias in Third World research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Shifts of population and jobs out of the snow belt and into the sun belt are currently in progress in the United States. Many aspects of these shifts constitute a reversal of long-run trends conventionally explained in terms of "growth inertia" concepts, such as the ones incorporated in cumulative causation and growth pole theories. The model discussed in this paper focuses upon the switch of regional economies from growth to decline, or vice-versa, that are exemplified by these shifts. Catastrophe theory concepts and formalisms account for sudden transitions between growth and decline produced by smooth transitions of systemic variables past critical thresholds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the regional change in the German Democratic Republic. Changes in the geographic distributions of economic activity and regional patterns of socioeconomic in the region; Historic concentration of industry in the South and regional inequalities; Problems facing national planners resulting from the conflict of regional planning goals.

This paper suggests significant processes associated with regional industrial change. Particular emphasis is given to the sensitivity of an open regional economy to shifts in external trade relationships and the ability of management to assess and adapt to the changing forces influencing theft industries. The case study of Northern Ireland between 1950 and 1968 attempts to explain the transition followed by the leading older industries and why certain alternative paths for regional transition were followed. A recurrent theme is the crucial role played by the regional government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the important aspects of the hsien capital. Establishment of hsien capital for administrative convenience and for tax collection; Asessment of population growth, frontier expansion, sequent occupance and the regional economic development; Influence of cultural factors on the formation of hsien capital.

Discusses the regionalization of Indiana. Topographic regions; Soil regions; Productivity and land values.

Examines the characteristics of a regional margin of the corn and dairy belts in the United States. Land use patterns; Method of studying regional margins; Effect of geographical location on economic phenomena.