Evaluation of National Urbanization Policy

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During the last twenty years, Israel has established more than thirty development towns, housing about 18 percent of the country's total 1970 population. This evaluation of Israel's urbanization policy, as formulated in the development towns program, considers achievements of national goals and their effects on urbanization patterns. Planning principles concerning the size, location, and economic base of the new towns are shown to be derived from theoretical frameworks based on urban hierarchical structure and city size distribution. Implementation of the “dispersion of population” policy appears generally effective when evaluated by geo-statistical techniques. However, success in changing the structure of the national urban system has been accompanied by failure to achieve regional integration, which suggests a new objective for future urbanization policy.

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