Agglomerations, Human and Social Capital: The case of Manufacturing Industry in Konya-Turkey

Abstract

Over the last three decades, new planning paradigms have exploded the factors depending on socio-cultural characteristics of space, in contrary to regional science. These paradigms argue the strategy for economic, social development and growth of regions instead of traditional theories which focus on spatial analysis as distance, transportation cost, labour cost. Economic development has not been considered independently from space by these theories and it was emphasized importance of economic actors, institutional and economic infrastructure as well as geographic features for economic performance of a region. Space contributes to increase not only skilled workforce, knowledge spillover and distribution but also social relations and interaction. In other words, the social-cultural and humanity factors relating with geography are major factors affecting on the development and also growing of economic activities. Industrialization as engine of regional development has been benefiting from the advantages offered by spatial features, clustering of economic activities. In this context, clustering of economic activities has been one of the new areas of interest in economic geography. Therefore, it can be said that human-social-spatial resources within a region has had a major role in developing by essays of the new economic geography