The structure of the South African space economy: An integrated approach

Board, Christopher; Davies, Ron; Fair, T. J. D.

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“…Due to the massive inertia in settlement systems once firmly established, classical theory developed in the 1960s and 1970s relating to the basic structuring of the space economy of “settler states,” such as Australia, essentially still holds good. Pioneers, including Rose (1966), Whebell (1969), Board, Davies, and Fair (1970), and Vance (1970), postulated space economies radically and permanently different from those of Europe, with seaborne points of entry at a few favoured locations, each developing commercial and political dominance over a large hinterland linked to the ports by a fan‐like transport and communication net. The initial points of entry are never challenged, metropolitan primacy is the normal state of the urban system, the “rank‐size rule” for urban hierarchies does not apply, and subsidiary urban centres grow up simultaneously with the spread of extractive or productive European rural settlement, rather than building on antecedent peasant societies.…”

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Shaping the Rural–Urban Symbiosis: Density, Dispersal, Remoteness, and Town Size in South‐East Australia

2012

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Within the context of economic and social change in rural Australia, this paper identifies four structural dimensions of non‐metropolitan communities that are shown to influence a range of areal and socio‐demographic characteristics. The analysis shows that such influence is essentially maintained whether the social catchments forming the database are subdivided by State or by an equivalent number of landscape types. Also, although the dimensions influence both the urban and dispersed elements of the communities, the strength of the relationships is substantially greater if those elements are considered as a symbiotic whole. Throughout, net rural local density (as opposed to gross density) is shown to be a consistently important dimension of rural communities in relatively sparsely settled lands such as those of south‐eastern Australia, supported by the important subsidiary influence of relative settlement dispersal and town size. The paper concludes with a discussion of the processes involved in the impact of those structural dimensions upon rural society.

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“…Even so, these towns are very small and most of them were located in the Cape Colony, the southwestern edge region of South Africa. Board, Davis and Fair 1970) Soon after the discovery of diamond deposit in 1867, Kimberly as the diamond city was born with 20 thousand Whites and 30 thousand Blacks in 1872 (Thompson 1995). Next, gold was discovered in 1886 and Johannesburg as the gold city rapidly established with 25 thousand Whites and 15 thousand Blacks in 1889.…”

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The development of the urban system and the hierarchy of cities in newly opened regions: Hokkaido, Japan and South Africa

Teraya

2004

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This paper aims to analyze the pattern and process of distribution of cities in the newly opened regions by tracing the historical changes of the urban system in Hokkaido, Japan and in the Republic of South Africa. The history of colonization is not so long in the newly opened regions. This means that we can study the genesis and development process of cities from the beginning of colonization. These frontier cities often have the gateway func-tion influencing over the wide surrounding region. The main concern of this study is to find out how urban functions and the urban system change from their beginning in the newly opened region. This study examines the relation between the hierarchy of cities and the locational characteristics of branch offices for the analysis of the postwar urban system in Hokkaido. We can discern the three stages in the development of the urban system in newly opened regions. First stage is the formative period: coastal regions were the centers of the exploitation and port cities were dominant. Second stage is the growth period: the ex-ploitation made great progress in inland regions and the coastal cities and inland cities were in conflict with each other. Third stage is the reorganization period: the economical centers move towards inland regions and the inland capital gets dominant.

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“…Some important methodological innovations or transfers were tested using telephone traffic data, including graph theoretic interpretations and matrix powering by Nystuen and Dacey (l961), extension of graph theory into hierarchisation models by Rouget (1972), the use of factor analysis on flows data by Illeris and Pedersen (1968) and its extension to obtain multi-ordered regional systems by Davies (1979) and Nader (198 1). Telephone traffic has been used for regional delineation in such diverse locations as Denmark (Illeris and Pedersen, 1968), France (Rouget, 1972), Ireland (O'Sullivan, 1969), Wales (Clark, 1973), Canada (Simmons, 1972, Nader, 1981, the United States (Nystuen and Dacey, 1961, Brown and Horton, 1970, Davies, 1979, Clayton, 1974, South Africa (Board, Davies and Fair, 1970), East Africa (Soja, 1968) and Australia (Logan el al.. 1975, Langdale, 1975, Smailes, 1969a, Holmes, 1976. Researchers have used an astonishing variety of methods for manipulating origin-destination flows matrices to extract significant information.…”

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Telephone traffic dispersion and nodal regionalisation in the Australian states

Holmes

1983

Australian Geographical Studies

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Telephone traffic is shown to be a reliable indicator of functional ties, with morning peak calls concentratedalong hierarchical pathways andevening peak calls more sensitive to population and distance. Traffic dispersion incident to each centre is systematically related to the size of the centre and to the size and spacing of interacting centres. Metropolitan orientation has a powerful effect on traffic dispersion in all situations and, in the more centralised states, negates the relationship between centre size and dispersion and converts the customary distance‐decay cones into an elevated surface of strong metropolitan orientation, broken by inverted cones around a few regional centres. Middle‐order nodal regions are delineated and intra‐regional flows analysed using primary linkage and standardised scores. Three distinctive systems of regional‐ordering are described, namely metropolitan‐dominated, provincial‐city dominated and multi‐ordered.

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The structure of the South African space economy: An integrated approach

Cited by 30 publications

References 9 publications

Shaping the Rural–Urban Symbiosis: Density, Dispersal, Remoteness, and Town Size in South‐East Australia

Shaping the Rural–Urban Symbiosis: Density, Dispersal, Remoteness, and Town Size in South‐East Australia

The development of the urban system and the hierarchy of cities in newly opened regions: Hokkaido, Japan and South Africa

Telephone traffic dispersion and nodal regionalisation in the Australian states

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