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Thte Spatial Structure of Economic Development in the Tennessee Valley. By JOHN R. P. FRIEDMANN. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955. Pp. xiv+187. Synonymous with the New Deal is TVA, a long-range program for the social and economic improvement of an entire region through the co-ordinated use of all natural resources. It is not surprising, therefore, that geographers, economists, and political scientists have contributed more to the wealth of literature on the Tennessee Valley than have sociologists. In this monograph the author sets for himself the task of analyzing the reciprocal relationship between economic development and spatial structure in the region, an area of some 92,000 square miles, which includes all of Tennessee and parts of six other states. Economic development, according to the author, can best be approached from the perspective of industrialization. The role of TVA was to provide the requisite electricity and water power. Dissatisfied with the concept of spatial structure "as an already existing configuration," the author deals with spatial structure in process of development while holding economic development constant and at the same time attempts to asse
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- Author
- E. C. Banfield
- Published
- 1956
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences