The Spatial System and Planning Strategies in Developing Countries

Assessing Modernization In Honduran Landscapes Using Repeat Photography

“…Geographic research on modernization appears to have been in its heyday during the 1970s (Soja ). Geographers concerned with modernization assessed its patterns and processes, focusing particularly intently on Africa (Gould ; Logan ; Soja and Tobin ; McGee ).…”

Towards a Framework for Spatial Resolution of Structural Polarity in African Development

“…Successful and long-term transformation of the prevailing patterns of production and social relations of production can be accomplished only if a new social and political order is matched by a carefully synchronized strategy of spatial organization [99]. Over a decade ago, Logan [62] and, more recently, Mabogunje [64] argued that a new spatial reorganization of the socioeconomic pattern is necessary to bring about African development (see also Johnson [54]). Both also realized the nagging question which maintains that spatial reorganization sacrifices overall national growth, as it has to be done by siphoning off resources from more productive to less productive areas.…”

Australian geography 1972–1982*

“…These authors judge neo-modernisation to have little to offer and emphasise the significance of institutions and class structure. M. I. Logan had earlier attacked the indices used to show modernisation at work, and emphasised the need to adapt colonial spatial systems to meet the needs of developing nations, using Nigeria as his example (Logan, 1972). By and large geographers have not followed this prescriptive approach to planning.…”