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Regional StudiesAug 1, 1983

Book reviews

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Regional Studies. VoL 17.4, pp. 285-292 Edited by A. G. CHAMPION Regional Planning in Europe, R. HUDSON and J. R. Human Settlement Systems: Spatial Patterns and LEWIS (Eds.), Pion, London (1982). 202 pp. £8.00 Trends, T. K^WASmMa and P. KORCELLI (Eds.), (flexicover). ISBN 0 85086 097 0. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg (1982). x + 210 pp. no price stated. ISBN 3 This is essentially a volume of papers presented at a 7045 00291 (pbk). session of the Regional Science Association in London in 1980. They include studies of Spain (Alonso and Hebbert), Urban Europe, vol. 1, A Study of Growth and Decline, Ireland (Breathnach), Italy (Arcangeli), South East England L. VAN DEN BERG, R. DREWETT, L. H. KLAASSEN, A. (Damesick), the Netherlands (Voogd), Denmark (Tort ROSSI and C. H. T. VIJVERBERG, Pergamon Press, Jensen), and the Marseilles area (Bleitrach and Chenu) Oxford (1982). xxii + 162 pp. £18.00 (hbk). ISBN 0 08 together with general papers (Hudson and Lewis; and 023156 X. Weaver). As with all such symposia, the resulting approaches are These two books provide a good introduction to similar inevitably very varied. Academically they vary from the types of research co-ordinated by two research organiza- determinedly logical-positivist to the fiercely Marxist (with tions based in Austria. The volume produced by the the balance finely drawn). In spatial scale they vary from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis national (Spain, Italy, the Netherlands) through the sub- (IIASA) contains a collection of papers which aim to...

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