Résumé
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Regional policy as a problem for regional theory -- 1. Regional policies: A theoretical framework -- 2. General history of regional policies: A proposal of a worldwide comparative study -- 3. Methodological problems in regional science -- 4. Regional economics within the system of economic science -- 5. Regional economic policy: An institutional-economic approach -- 6. A Phenomenological orientation in the spatial sciences? -- 7. Social issues of space economy -- 8. A Typology of regional policies -- 9. The living conditions approach to regional sociology -- 10. For a new style and method of planning -- 11. Some notes on the methodology of development planning -- 12. Long-term spatial, continental, and subcontinental studies and programming -- PART TWO: EXPERIENCES AND PROSPECTS IN THE NETHERLANDS -- 13. Review and evaluation of Dutch regional socio-economic policy -- 14. Measurement of employment effects of Dutch regional socioeconomic policy -- 15. Regional policy and environmental problems -- 16. Two cases of integral planning at the regional level in the northern part of the Netherlands -- 17. Questioning integral regional policy -- PART THREE: EXPERIENCES AND PROSPECTS IN POLAND -- 18. Space economy of Poland: Apparent and real problems -- 19. Regional development in Poland: Lessons of experience -- 20. The regional diversification of the standard of living in Poland, its dynamics and structure -- 21. Regional differences in Poland -- 22. Regional development policies in Poland: Ways of formulation and instruments of implementation -- 23. Physical planning in Poland: The changing fate of the doctrine