Overview
- Delivers the first comprehensive reading material on space economy issues in the Gauteng city-region
- Presents the dualism that exists in national and regional economies and formulation of policies intended to cure them
- Offers quantitative methods to unravel the spatial patterns of economic life enabling readers to be aware of the methods that can be used to understand regional development processes
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL)
Part of the book sub series: Urban Perspectives from the Global South (URPGS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Cheruiyot is a Senior Researcher at the Gauteng City-Region Observatory. He holds a PhD in Regional Development Planning from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA as well as post-graduate training in urban and regional planning and human settlements and bachelor’s degree in economics. With over 15 years of working in the field of urban and regional development planning both as a civil servant and a researcher, he has research interests in development (particularly economic development, economic geography or space economics, urban development, regional development and economics, poverty and inequality) and the application of a wide range of quantitative research methods (including cluster analysis, location analysis, spatial econometrics and spatial statistics) to model economic development issues and urban spatial change. Dr. Cheruiyot also teaches quantitative methods and econometrics in the School of Construction Economics and Management at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Changing Space Economy of City-Regions
Book Subtitle: The Gauteng City-Region, South Africa
Editors: Koech Cheruiyot
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67483-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67482-7Published: 10 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88437-0Published: 25 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67483-4Published: 30 October 2017
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 285
Number of Illustrations: 74 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Economic Geography, Development Economics, Regional/Spatial Science