Two Paradigms of Endogenous Development: Production Process & Supply-demand Relationship

Subject Areas : Urban Design

Seyed Gholamreza  Islami ¹ (Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, University College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran)
Seyed Yahya  Islami ² (Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran)

Received: 2011-12-14 Accepted : 2012-03-05 Published : 2012-01-01

Keywords: development, Cause-effect, production-process, supply-demand, and progression,

Abstract :

Different world views and philosophies in defining development problems and their solutions derivecurrently from different disciplines. They refer in many respects to the principle of cause-effect as afundamental relationship between phenomena. The history of differing values and attitudes presented inmanagement and design indicates the importance of this relationship.This sort of knowledge and some of the values and attitudes needed by built environment professionalscan be explored by the Endogenous Development Model and its associated internal paradigms ofproduction-process and supply-demand relationships. The first is responsible for the evolution of thoughtin a diachronous space-time dimension and the second causes the generation of typologies created in asynchronous three-dimensional space.Particular emphasis is placed on the meaning of development in the context of endogenous people-centreddevelopment. The paper addresses the fact that the means of production and the associated supply-demandmechanism are generated in the west. Indeed, for some today, what is seen as the historical process of“Westernization” may well be rejected outright as a goal for developing countries.