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- Title
THE EVALUATION OF PLANNING: SOME SOCIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS.
- Authors
Glass, Ruth
- Abstract
In discussing current problems of urbanization in Asia, it is usual to stress from the start the fundamental difference between the socio-economic settings of the 19th-century industrial revolution in Europe and the present conscious effort at industrial and agricultural development in Asia, as of August 1, 1958. It is a fundamental contrast of time and place which has many facets, the distinct characteristics of the current Asian process, derived from its historical and cultural background, are accentuated by the special features of the mid-20th century with respect to size and distribution of population, science and technology, social and political structure and international relations. There is also another difference, while industrial and urban growth in Europe was an entirely new development in the 19th century, it has now, in 20th-century Europe, become part of a common heritage of experience. Although this latter difference is not a precedent, it provides a basis for comparison, and indeed a reason for deliberately influencing the present process of urbanization in Asia along lines that differ from the earlier process observed in the West.
- Subjects
REGIONAL planning; URBANIZATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; INDUSTRIAL revolution; HISTORICAL sociology; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; SOCIAL structure
- Publication
International Social Science Journal, 1959, Vol 11, Issue 3, p393
- ISSN
0020-8701
- Publication type
Article