Toward a Policy Planner's View of the Urban Settlement System,

Abstract

This paper considers the interplay of three types of influences that affect the national system of urban settlement: (1) Cultural predispositons, the basic values and axioms that define a society's aspirations and direction, even though they may seldom describe its actual performance; (2) Migratory predispositions, the highly focused but as yet inactivated streams of potential migration that are defined by the history of past population movements; (3) Government activities and programs, whose inadvertent secondary effects exert a powerful but undirected influence on the redistribution of population.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA010941

Entities

People

  • Peter A. Morrison

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Governments

Readers

  • Economics
  • Theoretical Analysis.