title: Ways of improving settlement in West Siberia.
abstract: "[This] paper devoted to the settlement system and the problem of rural population loss in that portion of West Siberia having a significant agricultural base takes issue with some implicit assumptions incorporated within the General Scheme of Settlement within the USSR.  More specifically, policies calling for the deliberate, i.e., forced, resettlement of rural population in selected villages in order to provide economies of scale in rural services provision are criticized on two major counts:  (1) that such 'enlarged' settlements will still be too small to be allocated the necessary range of functions according to standard city-planning formulae, and (2) that they accelerate rural depopulation by serving as spring-boards for migration to still larger centers."
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Fuks
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005843:Geography; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011156:Population Density; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011640:Public Policy; D012424:Rural Population; D012942:Social Sciences; D014586:USSR; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Geographic Factors; Geography; Human Geography; Legislation; Migration; Migration Policy; Migration, Internal; Policy; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Population Size; Rural Population; Rural Spatial Distribution; Rural-urban Migration; Settlement And Resettlement; Social Policy; Social Sciences; Spatial Distribution; Urban Spatial Distribution; Urbanization; Ussr