Urban System Evolution in Frontier Settings: The Ecuador Amazon and General Frameworks

尽管第三世界的边境受到了相当大的影响， 近年来，其城市部分一直受到关注， 忽视 城市前沿研究的数量很少， 他们参考了其他第三世界地区的经验， 北美，他们未能制定一个概念框架， 边境城市化和融入国家城市化 系统 现有的边境城市化框架 主要来自对18和19世纪北美研究， 它往往反映了这一前沿的更发达的部分 体验. 这个研究项目将提供一个理解 第三世界边境的城市空间演变。 它将 将边境城镇的演变与 更好地理解城市进程中的相似之处， 地方 它还将建立一个概念框架， 城市从其形成阶段过渡到 一个新兴的城市子系统， 成熟但不断发展的经济。 这将由一个 厄瓜多尔边境城市化进程的详细研究 从1960年到1990年。 数据将来自人口普查， 其他二手资料、调查和线人访谈。 五 主要城市中心将在经济方面进行审查， 活动、人力资源概况、 与厄瓜多尔当地和其他地区的互动， 互动类型的变化，以及解释因素 影响这些趋势。 这项研究将为现有的框架提供一个桥梁 边境城市化，这在很大程度上来自研究 北美在自己的边疆发展。 它将 解决边境城镇的功能及其融入 第三世界国家的城市体系。 人口 这些国家的增长和国家定居政策 促进迄今为止城市发展的加速 人口稀少的地区。 在不规则的表面上。 新 了解城市如何发展和融合 将为科学家和 政策制定者有一个评估这一影响的基础， 对经济、社会和环境系统的影响。

Although Third World frontiers have received considerable attention in recent years, their urban segment has been neglected. Urban frontier studies are few in number, rarely do they reference the experience of other Third World locales or North America, and they fail to formulate a conceptual framework of frontier urbanization and integration into a national urban system. Existing frameworks of frontier urbanization derive largely from research on 18th and 19th century North America, which tends to reflect more developed portions of that frontier experience. This research project will provide an understanding of urban place evolution in Third World frontiers. It will compare the evolution of frontier towns cross-nationally to understand better similarities in the urban process from place to place. It will also build a conceptual framework to account for the transition of urban places from their formative phase in a rudimentary frontier setting to an emerging urban sub-system in a mature, but evolving, economy. This will be accomplished by a detailed study of the frontier urbanization process in Ecuador for the period 1960 to 1990. Data will come from census and other secondary sources, surveys, and informant interviews. Five major urban centers will be examined in terms of economic activity, human resource profile, transformation in patterns of interaction with local hinterlands and other portions of Ecuador, shifts in the type of interaction, and the explanatory factors influencing these trends. This research will provide a bridge to existing frameworks of frontier urbanization, which largely derive from research on North America during its own frontier development. It will address the function of frontier towns and their integration into a national urban system in a Third World context. Population growth and national settlement policies in these nations are promoting an acceleration or urban development in heretofore sparsely populated regions. rates on irregular surfaces. New knowledge about how urban places develop and become integrated into a national urban system will provide both scientists and policy makers with a basis for evaluating the impact of this phenomenon on economic, social, and environmental systems.