The book addresses the nature and importance of the interaction between ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ areas within Third World national territories, providing much-needed comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-national material.

Preface Alan B. Mountjoy: An Appreciation Alan B. Mountjoy: Publications 1. Urban-rural Interaction in Developing Countries: A Theoretical Perspective 2. The Role of Energy in Urban-Rural Interchange in Tropical Africa 3. The Role of Urban Bias in Perpetuating Rural-urban and Regional Disparities in the Maghreb 4. The Urban Crisis and Rural-urban Migration in Sudan 5. Rural-urban Interaction and Development in Southern Africa: The Implications of Reduced Labour Migration 6. The Urban-Rural Context of Agrarian Change in the Arabian Peninsula 7. Commercialistaion, Distribution and Consumption: Rural-urban Grain and Resource Transfers in Peasant Society 8. Urban-rural Relations and the Counter-revolution in Development Theory and Policy 9. Rural-urban Interaction in Barbados and the Southern Caribbean: Patterns and Processes of Dependent Development in Small Countries 10. A Periphery in Genesis and Exodus: Reflections on Rural-urban Relations in Jamaica 11. Urban-rural Interaction, Spatial Polarisation and Development Planning Index