1. Urban Planning in Hong Kong and Integration with the Pearl River Delta: A Historical Account of Local Development

   • Louis Augustin-Jean

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 13

2. Wal-Mart and Aldi: Two Retail Giants in Germany

   • Ulrike Gerhard
   • Barbara Hahn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 26

3. In situ Agrobiodiversity Conservation for Regional Development in Nepal

   • Douglas Bardsley
   • Ian Thomas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 39

4. Entrepreneurial Regionalist Planning in a Rescaled Spain: The Cases of Bilbao and València

   • David L. Prytherch
   • Laura Huntoon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 50

5. ‘Boundary’ in Ancient Persian Tradition of Statehood

   • Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 58

6. ‘Competing Regionalisation’ Through Territory and Cluster Networks: Experiences from Post-Socialist Eastern Germany

   • Tassilo Herrschel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 70

7. Development and the Household: Missing the point?

   • Edward R. Carr

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 83

8. Regional Population and Employment Change in Australia 1991–2001: Inertia in the Face of Rapid Change?

   • Scott Baum
   • Kevin O’Connor

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 94

9. Causes of Forest Encroachment: An Analysis of Bangladesh

   • M. S. Iftekhar
   • A. K. F. Hoque

   OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 106

10. Perspectives on Regionalism in (Southern) Africa

    • Maano Ramutsindela

    Review-essay Pages: 107 - 110

11. Book Review: Zoë Preston, The Crystallization of the Iraqi State. Geopolitical Function and Form, Peter Lang: Bern 2003 ISBN 3-03910-067-X.

    • Herman van der Wusten

    Book Review Pages: 111 - 112

12. Opportunities and Challenges for Development in Africa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 113

13. Introduction

    • Francis Owusu

    Introduction Pages: 115 - 116

14. Kenya’s Secondary Cities Growth Strategy at a Crossroads: Which Way Forward?

    • Kefa M. Otiso

    OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 128

15. What has Corruption Got to do with it? Understanding the Persistence of Rural-Urban and Inter-Regional Inequalities in Ghana and Zimbabwe

    • Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang
    • Judith Shabaya

    OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 146

16. Housing the Urban Poor in Twenty-First Century Sub-Saharan Africa: Policy Mismatch and a Way Forward for Ghana

    • Ian E. A. Yeboah

    OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 161

17. Vulnerability, Partnerships and the Pursuit of Survival: Urban Livelihoods and Apprenticeship Contracts in a West African City

    • Kobena Hanson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 179

18. Value of Climate Forecasts for Adjusting Farming Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Abigail Amissah-Arthur

    OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 189