Metropolitan gravitation in Northern New South Wales

Woolmington, Eric

doi:10.1080/00049186508702446

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“…One of the major influences was the quantitative revolution that reshaped teaching and research across the English‐speaking world in the 1950s and 1960s, and which found fertile ground in Australia. Early exemplars of that influence can be seen in attempts to apply Christaller's and Lösch's versions of Central Place Theory to rural settlement systems (Scott, 1964; Smailes and Molyneux, 1965; Woolmington, 1965; Smailes, 1969). This did not necessarily mean that these ideas were imported holus‐bolus and uncritically.…”

Section: Transition Change and Continuity In Rural Australiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolutionary Perspectives on Rural Australia

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Argent

Plummer

2011

Geographical Research

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An enduring concern within Australian rural geography has been to understand the nature and implications of change. Much of the intellectual effort has been focused on interpreting how rural economies, populations, social institutions, cultures, and land uses have been transformed through processes operating across a range of spatial and temporal scales. This paper offers a critical appraisal of recent rural research in Australia and how this body of work has attempted to make sense of change. It argues that despite an ongoing focus on the nature of change, it is often reduced to a relatively simple historical narrative. We suggest that some of the emerging ideas in 'evolutionary economic geography' might offer an alternative means of conceptualising the trajectories of rural economies, institutions, and communities. The paper outlines the contours of evolutionary economic geography and the ways in which some of its key conceptual foundations might offer a means of understanding not only rural change, but also continuity.

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Section: Transition Change and Continuity In Rural Australiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolutionary Perspectives on Rural Australia

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Argent

Plummer

2011

Geographical Research

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“…The research output of the 1960s covered the full spectrum of the urban-economic geography that had been at the forefront of what Browett (1984) has termed the quantitative and spatial organisation revolutions. Scott (1964a;1964b), Daly and Brown (1964) and Smailes (1969a) analysed central place networks in Australia, while others worked on the allied questions of urban primacy and rank-size relationships (Woolmington. 1965;Rose, 1966).…”

Section: The Sixties: Ebullient Empiricismmentioning

confidence: 99%