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Titre
Urban growth in relation to socio-economic development and westernisation: A case study of the city of Mashad, Iran
Sujet
philosophy, religion, sociology, human services, Mashad, urban growth, socio-economic development, westernisation
Description
The origins of this volume lie in a period of three years' attachment to the Geography Department of the University of Durham as a reasearch student. Of this period a total of about fourteen months was spent carrying out field work and collecting data in Iran, whilst the remainder of the time was spent in acquiring an elementary knowledge of the Persian language, in learning some basic statistical techniques, and in analysing the data and writing up the results.
The choice of the field of research was made on the basis of three main interests - urban studies, the application of quantitative techniques to geography, and the Middle East as a region, fostered by training in Durham both as a research student and an undergraduate. More specifically the subject was chosen as a contribution to what appears to be a relatively neglected field of urban studies - that is, the study of cities outside Europe and North America, and the relationship between urbanisation and socio-economic development in underdeveloped areas. It would appear that by far the greater part of urban research has been directed at cities of one particular culture area (Europe and North America) and both research techniques and generalisation about the nature of cities are as a result limited in scope by this. Yet 55% to 60% of the world's "urban" population lives in cities outside Europe and north America, so that the consideration of such cities is clearly of some importance.
The choice of the field of research was made on the basis of three main interests - urban studies, the application of quantitative techniques to geography, and the Middle East as a region, fostered by training in Durham both as a research student and an undergraduate. More specifically the subject was chosen as a contribution to what appears to be a relatively neglected field of urban studies - that is, the study of cities outside Europe and North America, and the relationship between urbanisation and socio-economic development in underdeveloped areas. It would appear that by far the greater part of urban research has been directed at cities of one particular culture area (Europe and North America) and both research techniques and generalisation about the nature of cities are as a result limited in scope by this. Yet 55% to 60% of the world's "urban" population lives in cities outside Europe and north America, so that the consideration of such cities is clearly of some importance.
Créateur
Darwent, David F.
Éditeur
Durham University
Date
1965
Contributeur
Fisher, W. B. Supervisor
Langue
en
Type
Thesis
Identifiant
http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1364/
http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/1062
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