Gary L Gaile
Biographic Data
| ID | 104411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary L Gaile |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary L |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaile |
| SIGNATURE | GAILE G L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Exploring Sustainable Development
Key Words: human-environment relationshipsspatial hierarchysustainable development Additional informationNotes on contributorsLucas C. WardReviewed byGary L. GaileReviewed by
Geography in America at the dawn of the 21st century
Initially published as "Geography in America" in 1989, this latest volume is a completely new publication. Among its features is the Foreword, written by the eminent geographer Gilbert White. - Publisher source material.
The Work of Cities
Local Politics in a Global Era: Thinking Locally, Acting Globally
Given the contested meanings of the local global context, it is important to see local political processes as more than a matter of new interests or claims prompted by globalization or even new institutions such as public-private partnerships. We argue that local politics in a global era are best understood in terms of the ideas, institutions, and interests shaping local policy processes. They are shaped by the causal stories that different group…
Success in African social development: Some positive indications
Negativism pervades the general perception of development efforts.! The view of those efforts in Africa labels them as the nadir.2 Yet a retrospective consideration will show that this perception is wrong, particularly if non-economic development is considered. Africa has made social development progress on a wide variety of fronts. Much of the credit can be attributed to self-generated advances, although development assistance has often played a…
The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation . James L. Newman
An underview of Cedric Pugh
The Rural-Urban Interface in Africa: Expansion and Adaptation
(1995). The Rural-Urban Interface in Africa: Expansion and Adaptation. Economic Geography: Vol. 71, No. 3, pp. 330-331
Research Note Kenya's Spatial Dimensions of Development Strategy
Geography in America
Moving Toward Entrepreneurial Economic Development Policies: Opportunities and Barriers1
Trade, Power, and Location: The Spatial Dynamics of the Relationship between Exchange and Political-Economic Strength
Gary L. Gaile, Richard Grant, Trade, Power, and Location: The Spatial Dynamics of the Relationship between Exchange and Political-Economic Strength, Economic Geography, Vol. 65, No. 4, Trade Theories, Scale, and Structure (Oct., 1989), pp. 329-337
Choosing Locations for Small Town Development to Enable Market and Employment Expansion: The Case of Kenya
Kenya's Rural Trade and Production Center Program is designed to use small towns to stimulate market and employment expansion in areas of high unmet agricultural and livestock potential. The logic of the program is consistent with a formula-based method presented here. The method is intended to inform planners of locations for investments in small towns. Geographical techniques are used in this method to delimit market areas and define some of th…
Spatial Statistics and Models
Enterprise Zones: Greenlining the Inner Cities . Stuart M. Butler; The Development of the U.S. Urban System, Volume II: Industrial Shifts, Implications . Edgar S. Dunn, Jr.; Urbanization in Contempora…
(1984). Enterprise Zones: Greenlining the Inner Cities. Stuart M. Butler; The Development of the U.S. Urban System, Volume II: Industrial Shifts, Implications. Edgar S. Dunn, Jr.; Urbanization in Contemporary Latin America. Alan Gilbert, editor, in association with Jorge E. Hardoy and Ronaldo Ramirez. Urban Geography: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 187-192
The spread-backwash concept
Gaile G. L. (1980) The spread-backwash concept, Reg. Studies 14, 15–25. This paper reviews the spread-backwash concept from its classical antecedents through contemporary work. The contemporary works are analyzed for their theoretical and methodological approaches and according to a selection of attributes. A synoptic analysis of the concept argues that the role of diffusion in the concept has been overstated and that the spread-backwash dichotom…
Alternative Spatial Investment Strategies
Despite the acceptance of growth center strategies by many national planning agencies, spatial analysts have yet to specify empirically or theoretically the spatial development impact which might b
Effiquity: A Comparison of a Measure of Efficiency with an Entropic Measure of the Equality of Discrete Spatial Distributions
Gary L. Gaile, Effiquity: A Comparison of a Measure of Efficiency with an Entropic Measure of the Equality of Discrete Spatial Distributions, Economic Geography, Vol. 53, No. 3 (Jul., 1977), pp. 265-282
Towards a Strategy of Growth Paths
The paper considers the development of spatial investment strategies as a response to the problems of spatial inequality of development. It extends the formal logic of growth-center-based development to show that the conditions necessary for reducing intraregional development inequalities are highly unlikely under any center-based spatial investment strategy. The strategy of growth paths is introduced as an alternative. The strategy argues that u…
Processes Affecting the Spatial Pattern of Rural-Urban Development in Kenya
Development does not occur at the same rate everywhere. The resultant unequal distribution of development concerns planners throughout the world. A variety of spatial investment strategies which affect the development pattern have been proposed. They range from the dispersed, equality oriented investment of Tanzania's ujamaa to the primate city concentration of Ivory Coast's efficiency oriented “African Riviera” project in Abidjan. Most countries…
Testing Growth-Center Hypotheses
A technique developed by Casetti, King, and Odland (Casetti et al., 1971) for testing growth-center hypotheses is analyzed and found to be sound in principle, but requiring modification in certain specifics. Refinements and modifications relative to problems of scale, 'center-specificity', directionality, and spatial-temporal resolution are explained and demonstrated through empirical reanalysis of Casetti et al.'s original data, and also a case …
The Analysis and Recognition of Shapes
Geographers have always had an interest in the shapes of objects that they study, and have used descriptions of shapes in their analyses of urban form, trade areas, political units and physical features in the landscape. Geographers have also sought quantitative measures of shapes, and to utilize these measures in the development of theory explaining spatial phenomena. However, there have been numerous methods of measuring shape devised without a…
Moving Toward Entrepreneurial Economic Development Policies: Opportunities and Barriers1
Geography in America
Local Politics in a Global Era: Thinking Locally, Acting Globally
Given the contested meanings of the local global context, it is important to see local political processes as more than a matter of new interests or claims prompted by globalization or even new institutions such as public-private partnerships. We argue that local politics in a global era are best understood in terms of the ideas, institutions, and interests shaping local policy processes. They are shaped by the causal stories that different group…
The spread-backwash concept
Gaile G. L. (1980) The spread-backwash concept, Reg. Studies 14, 15–25. This paper reviews the spread-backwash concept from its classical antecedents through contemporary work. The contemporary works are analyzed for their theoretical and methodological approaches and according to a selection of attributes. A synoptic analysis of the concept argues that the role of diffusion in the concept has been overstated and that the spread-backwash dichotom…
Effiquity: A Comparison of a Measure of Efficiency with an Entropic Measure of the Equality of Discrete Spatial Distributions
Gary L. Gaile, Effiquity: A Comparison of a Measure of Efficiency with an Entropic Measure of the Equality of Discrete Spatial Distributions, Economic Geography, Vol. 53, No. 3 (Jul., 1977), pp. 265-282
Trade, Power, and Location: The Spatial Dynamics of the Relationship between Exchange and Political-Economic Strength
Gary L. Gaile, Richard Grant, Trade, Power, and Location: The Spatial Dynamics of the Relationship between Exchange and Political-Economic Strength, Economic Geography, Vol. 65, No. 4, Trade Theories, Scale, and Structure (Oct., 1989), pp. 329-337
Success in African social development: Some positive indications
Negativism pervades the general perception of development efforts.! The view of those efforts in Africa labels them as the nadir.2 Yet a retrospective consideration will show that this perception is wrong, particularly if non-economic development is considered. Africa has made social development progress on a wide variety of fronts. Much of the credit can be attributed to self-generated advances, although development assistance has often played a…
An underview of Cedric Pugh
Research Note Kenya's Spatial Dimensions of Development Strategy
Choosing Locations for Small Town Development to Enable Market and Employment Expansion: The Case of Kenya
Kenya's Rural Trade and Production Center Program is designed to use small towns to stimulate market and employment expansion in areas of high unmet agricultural and livestock potential. The logic of the program is consistent with a formula-based method presented here. The method is intended to inform planners of locations for investments in small towns. Geographical techniques are used in this method to delimit market areas and define some of th…
Towards a Strategy of Growth Paths
The paper considers the development of spatial investment strategies as a response to the problems of spatial inequality of development. It extends the formal logic of growth-center-based development to show that the conditions necessary for reducing intraregional development inequalities are highly unlikely under any center-based spatial investment strategy. The strategy of growth paths is introduced as an alternative. The strategy argues that u…
The Analysis and Recognition of Shapes
Geographers have always had an interest in the shapes of objects that they study, and have used descriptions of shapes in their analyses of urban form, trade areas, political units and physical features in the landscape. Geographers have also sought quantitative measures of shapes, and to utilize these measures in the development of theory explaining spatial phenomena. However, there have been numerous methods of measuring shape devised without a…
Testing Growth-Center Hypotheses
A technique developed by Casetti, King, and Odland (Casetti et al., 1971) for testing growth-center hypotheses is analyzed and found to be sound in principle, but requiring modification in certain specifics. Refinements and modifications relative to problems of scale, 'center-specificity', directionality, and spatial-temporal resolution are explained and demonstrated through empirical reanalysis of Casetti et al.'s original data, and also a case …
Processes Affecting the Spatial Pattern of Rural-Urban Development in Kenya
Development does not occur at the same rate everywhere. The resultant unequal distribution of development concerns planners throughout the world. A variety of spatial investment strategies which affect the development pattern have been proposed. They range from the dispersed, equality oriented investment of Tanzania's ujamaa to the primate city concentration of Ivory Coast's efficiency oriented “African Riviera” project in Abidjan. Most countries…
Effiquity: A Comparison of a Measure of Efficiency with an Entropic Measure of the Equality of Discrete Spatial Distributions
Gary L. Gaile, Effiquity: A Comparison of a Measure of Efficiency with an Entropic Measure of the Equality of Discrete Spatial Distributions, Economic Geography, Vol. 53, No. 3 (Jul., 1977), pp. 265-282
Towards a Strategy of Growth Paths
The paper considers the development of spatial investment strategies as a response to the problems of spatial inequality of development. It extends the formal logic of growth-center-based development to show that the conditions necessary for reducing intraregional development inequalities are highly unlikely under any center-based spatial investment strategy. The strategy of growth paths is introduced as an alternative. The strategy argues that u…
Alternative Spatial Investment Strategies
Despite the acceptance of growth center strategies by many national planning agencies, spatial analysts have yet to specify empirically or theoretically the spatial development impact which might b
The spread-backwash concept
Gaile G. L. (1980) The spread-backwash concept, Reg. Studies 14, 15–25. This paper reviews the spread-backwash concept from its classical antecedents through contemporary work. The contemporary works are analyzed for their theoretical and methodological approaches and according to a selection of attributes. A synoptic analysis of the concept argues that the role of diffusion in the concept has been overstated and that the spread-backwash dichotom…
Enterprise Zones: Greenlining the Inner Cities . Stuart M. Butler; The Development of the U.S. Urban System, Volume II: Industrial Shifts, Implications . Edgar S. Dunn, Jr.; Urbanization in Contempora…
(1984). Enterprise Zones: Greenlining the Inner Cities. Stuart M. Butler; The Development of the U.S. Urban System, Volume II: Industrial Shifts, Implications. Edgar S. Dunn, Jr.; Urbanization in Contemporary Latin America. Alan Gilbert, editor, in association with Jorge E. Hardoy and Ronaldo Ramirez. Urban Geography: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 187-192
Spatial Statistics and Models
Choosing Locations for Small Town Development to Enable Market and Employment Expansion: The Case of Kenya
Kenya's Rural Trade and Production Center Program is designed to use small towns to stimulate market and employment expansion in areas of high unmet agricultural and livestock potential. The logic of the program is consistent with a formula-based method presented here. The method is intended to inform planners of locations for investments in small towns. Geographical techniques are used in this method to delimit market areas and define some of th…
Moving Toward Entrepreneurial Economic Development Policies: Opportunities and Barriers1
Trade, Power, and Location: The Spatial Dynamics of the Relationship between Exchange and Political-Economic Strength
Gary L. Gaile, Richard Grant, Trade, Power, and Location: The Spatial Dynamics of the Relationship between Exchange and Political-Economic Strength, Economic Geography, Vol. 65, No. 4, Trade Theories, Scale, and Structure (Oct., 1989), pp. 329-337
Research Note Kenya's Spatial Dimensions of Development Strategy
Geography in America
An underview of Cedric Pugh
The Rural-Urban Interface in Africa: Expansion and Adaptation
(1995). The Rural-Urban Interface in Africa: Expansion and Adaptation. Economic Geography: Vol. 71, No. 3, pp. 330-331
Success in African social development: Some positive indications
Negativism pervades the general perception of development efforts.! The view of those efforts in Africa labels them as the nadir.2 Yet a retrospective consideration will show that this perception is wrong, particularly if non-economic development is considered. Africa has made social development progress on a wide variety of fronts. Much of the credit can be attributed to self-generated advances, although development assistance has often played a…
The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation . James L. Newman
Local Politics in a Global Era: Thinking Locally, Acting Globally
Given the contested meanings of the local global context, it is important to see local political processes as more than a matter of new interests or claims prompted by globalization or even new institutions such as public-private partnerships. We argue that local politics in a global era are best understood in terms of the ideas, institutions, and interests shaping local policy processes. They are shaped by the causal stories that different group…
The Work of Cities
Geography in America at the dawn of the 21st century
Initially published as "Geography in America" in 1989, this latest volume is a completely new publication. Among its features is the Foreword, written by the eminent geographer Gilbert White. - Publisher source material.
Exploring Sustainable Development
Key Words: human-environment relationshipsspatial hierarchysustainable development Additional informationNotes on contributorsLucas C. WardReviewed byGary L. GaileReviewed by
Geography (11 works) · Economic geography (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (5 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Law (4 works)