A region's pattern of growth depends on its power to attract economic activities and the right blend of people to run them. This power depends on economic and social factors that may be combined into a variable which is referred to as the Image of a region and has been presented in some earlier...

The growth or decline of a region depends on its power to pull and retain both business and the right blend of people to run them. This pulling power depends on what we call the "Image" of the region, a variable which expresses the region's present state of development and future prospects and...

Throughout the second half of the 20th Century, urbanization, new technologies, rapid labor-saving productivity growth in primary industries, and improved highways combined to create large-scale rural-urban functionally integrated regions. These forces have raised the stakes for regions in their...