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标题：THE INFLUENCE OF COLONIAL RAILWAYS ON JAVA ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
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作者：Aloysius Gunadi BRATA
期刊名称：Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management
印刷版ISSN：2065-3913
电子版ISSN：2065-3921
出版年度：2021
卷号：16
期号：2
页码：39-54
语种：English
出版社：Research Centre in Public Administration and Public Services, Academy of Economic Studies
摘要：This study explores the impact on Java’s economic geography of railways built by the Dutch colonial government. Pre-1940 Dutch railway construction affords a historical experiment on the spatial distribution of economic activities across urban Java both before and after 1940. Using city data for over 100 years, the study finds that the railways had a short-term impact on the distribution of population, but that in the long run colonial railway investment lost its advantages. Until 1930, the railways substituted for the Great Mail Road. Between 1930 and 2010, however, the Great Mail Road regained earlier importance in shaping urban Javanese patterns..
关键词：colonial railways;history;economic geography;Java