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

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Board C., Davies R. J. and Fair T. J. D. (1970). The structure of the South African space economy: an integrated approach, Reg. Studies 4, 367–392. The South African space economy in the 1960s is considered at the national and sub-national levels. An integrated view of it is achieved by relating surfaces of socio-economic character, the status and character of nodes, and flows and networks of traffic and communications. Principal components analysis isolates intensity of economic activity and welfare as main dimensions in the socio-economic landscape, whose peaks coincide with major poles of economic activity, leaders of the urban hierarchy and the foci of movement and interaction. The space economy is organized into a number of nodal regions, the largest of which centres on the Witwatersrand. When these are integrated with the surfaces of differing socioeconomic level, four development regions and some marginal areas are distinguished. Within them the degree to which peripheries are integrated with regional core areas suggests what stage of economic development they have reached.

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