Preface -- PART ONE: POLICY -- 1. Regional problems in socio-economic policy -- 2. Social planning in a regional framework -- 3. Normative problems and social issues in regional analysis -- 4. Regional policy and planning in social perspective: A planner's point of view -- 5. Regional policy as social planning -- 6. The impact of social organization and environment upon the time-use of individuals and households -- 7. Regional and environmental planning in social perspective -- PART TWO: INTEGRATION -- 1. Welfare economics and the 'unified approach' to development planning -- 2. The city as development centre -- 3. A sociological concept of polarized development -- 4. Towards an operational definition of psychological distance -- 5. Social issues in regional policy and regional planning -- 1. Problems of social policies in regional planning: The experience of Poland -- 2. Social aspects of regional planning -- 3. Some social aspects of regional development in Latin America -- 4. Social disparities and regional policy in Britain -- 5. Urban planning and its impact on the quality of urban life in West European cities -- 6. Urbanisation, domestic planning problems and Swedish geographic research -- PART FOUR: RESEARCH -- 1. The role of social equipment and environment in regional economic growth -- 2. A framework for dealing with the urban environment: Introductory statement -- 3. The urban-regional dimension in regional planning research -- 4. The integrated social science approach to regional planning in developing countries -- 5. Sociological aspects of regional development and of planning for regional development: Some issues and areas for further exploration -- 6. Regional or spatial sociology? -- 7. The sociological failure in regional planning: Comments on some recent publications in the field of sociology and planning.

8. Prospects of regional sociology -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements.