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- Title
An Application of Activity Analysis to Development Planning in the Elk River Area of the Tennessee Valley.
- Authors
Mauer, Laurence J.; Stevenson, William W.
- Abstract
This article reports on techniques and findings of a two-year econometric study devoted to development planning in the Elk River area, a subregion of the Tennessee Valley. The area is one of a number of economically lagging regions in which local development efforts have been receiving concentrated planning assistance from the Tennessee Valley Authority. Certain of the socio-economic problems confronting the study area are mentioned but this paper's principal concern will be with the rationale and application of the planning model itself. The eight-county Elk River area occupies some 3,850 square miles in south-central Tennessee and northern Alabama. The population, now increasing slowly after two decades of decline, is about 200,000. The Elk River provides the unifying feature and drains a little over half of the region as it flows southwest to meet the Tennessee, just east of Muscle Shoals. The area lies in the interstice of four centers of commercial and cultural activity: Nashville, Huntsville, Chattanooga and the Muscle Shoals region. Interaction is greatest with rapidly industrializing northern Alabama; of the one-third of all area factory workers who commute to jobs outside the Elk River area, most are employed in, or near, Huntsville.
- Subjects
TENNESSEE; TENNESSEE River Valley; UNITED States; URBAN planning; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC development; LAND use planning; ECONOMICS; INDUSTRIAL workers
- Publication
Land Economics, 1970, Vol 46, Issue 1, p85
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3145429