Intermediate Cities in the Resource Frontier: A Case Study of Samarinda and Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
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1985-05
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University of Hawaii at Manoa
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This dissertation focuses on the functions and roles of two intermediate cities within an international economic system. Wallerstein's "world systems" model is used as a framework for studying changes that occur in a resource frontier region and its two cities as demand for regional resources increases on the world market. The cities, Samarinda and Balikpapan, are located in East Kalimantan, a resource-rich province of Indonesia. East Kalimantan's involvement in the world economy is paralleled by the Indonesian government's interest in provincial resources. Samarinda, the provincial capital and center of timber processing, and Balikpapan, the regional petroleum refining center, experienced rapid economic and demographic growth during the 1970s as they became centers of political and economic control over regional resources. A qualitative "urban system" model, adapted from Nijkamp, is used to analyze urban changes catalyzed by the arrival of multi-national timber and petroleum corporations and the dominant role of the national government. The study concludes that the future of resource frontier cities, such as Samarinda and Balikpapan, ... more dependent upon world market demand for regional resources and government policies aimed at resource management and marketing than it is upon explicit urban regional development policies.
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Resource-based communities, International business enterprises--Management, Economic development--Government policy
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x, 306 pages
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Indonesia--Samarinda
Indonesia--Balikpapan
Indonesia--Balikpapan
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Theses for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Geography.
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