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The paper will explore the intellectual antecedents of ekistics within
existing theories of human settlements. Prominent among them are
central place theory and regional science, which have a strongly
continental European pedigree, and modern urban economics, which by now is taught
and studied world-wide but has a strong Anglo-Saxon flavor. The paper
will explore the development of ekistics for the purpose of
understanding urban "problems" and of providing intellectual support for
deliberate interventions in urban and regional space. The paper will
explore the interactions of ekistics with these other disciplines by
means of a brief analysis of its analytical underpinnings and will
contrast its some stylized prescriptions with those from those other
disciplines by means of a number of examples.
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