The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries

The book **addresses the nature and importance of the interaction between 'urban' and 'rural' areas within Third World national territories, providing much-needed comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-national material.

Originally published in 1989, The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries addresses the nature and importance of the interaction between 'urban' and 'rural' areas within Third World national territories, providing much-needed comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-national material. The book discusses the various theories of urban-rural interaction, and summarises the topic in the form of the movement of people, goods, money, capital, new technology, energy, information and ideas. Case studies are drawn from different areas of the Third World - including Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean and illustrate in detail the nature of urban-rural interaction.

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The book addresses the nature and importance of the interaction between 'urban' and 'rural' areas within Third World national territories, providing much-needed comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-national material.

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Preface Alan B. Mountjoy: An Appreciation Alan B. Mountjoy: Publications 1. Urban-rural Interaction in Developing Countries: A Theoretical Perspective 2. The Role of Energy in Urban-Rural Interchange in Tropical Africa 3. The Role of Urban Bias in Perpetuating Rural-urban and Regional Disparities in the Maghreb 4. The Urban Crisis and Rural-urban Migration in Sudan 5. Rural-urban Interaction and Development in Southern Africa: The Implications of Reduced Labour Migration 6. The Urban-Rural Context of Agrarian Change in the Arabian Peninsula 7. Commercialistaion, Distribution and Consumption: Rural-urban Grain and Resource Transfers in Peasant Society 8. Urban-rural Relations and the Counter-revolution in Development Theory and Policy 9. Rural-urban Interaction in Barbados and the Southern Caribbean: Patterns and Processes of Dependent Development in Small Countries 10. A Periphery in Genesis and Exodus: Reflections on Rural-urban Relations in Jamaica 11. Urban-rural Interaction, Spatial Polarisation and Development Planning Index