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The Region as an Evolutive System

In: Technological Change, Economic Development and Space

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  • G. Preto

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It may seem strange that, after four decades of existence of the Regional Science Association, the concept of the region is still a subject of discussion. Many things have changed however, some of them radically, since the first Isardian definitions. Whereas it seems increasingly unsatisfactory to make a merely generic use of the term ‘region’, synonymous with territory, it nevertheless appears impossible to single out a precise geographic entity that can be rigorously defined as such. In the context of socio-economic relations that have reached a global scale, and now that local entities (and their relation space) are considered simply as ‘nodes’ of a global network, it is even being questioned whether the region has any strategic significance at all.

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  • G. Preto, 1995. "The Region as an Evolutive System," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Cristoforo S. Bertuglia & Manfred M. Fischer & Giorgio Preto (ed.), Technological Change, Economic Development and Space, chapter 12, pages 257-275, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-642-79760-6_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-79760-6_12
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