notion locked into regional administrations, their populations stand to be benefi-
cially enriched, socially secure, and environmentally protected.
A failing with orthodox growth pattern endeavours is an assumption about eco-
nomic growth based on extra-regional happenings which are beyond intra-
regional influence. At worse this becomes planning by spin-off belief (hunch)
where the imagery of a transport ‘circulation system’ (very little transport in fact
‘circulates’), the opportunities for the appointment of an executive officer to
operate like a ‘captain of industry’ (such executives have few opportunities to
operate in such a manner), leaves regions pretty much unchanged and unim-
proved. An additional shortcoming relates to enforcement, which can be identi-
fied as a major complication for growth pattern management because, for most
rural-urban contexts, and metropolitan tracts, the mandatory power to lock policy
onto delivery is either weak or non-existent.
Symbolic imagery (for example sporting achievements) are often employed as
a regional metaphor, with macro pattern ambitions depicted cartoon style. Pre-
selected ‘solutions’ without an understanding of the necessary ‘planning pro-
gression’ (figures 2.5 and 2.6 in chapter 2) or an appreciation of the Multiplier
spiral for development (figure 4.1) are inclined to put those implicated under the
delusion of growth perpetually denied. The symbols of failure (goals under-
achieved, targets unmet, predictions unfulfilled) can leave a region marking time;
and such failures, particularly for already poor regions, are bound to undercut
confidence and morale and knock on to influence future endeavours adversely.
Little wonder that the efforts of regional agencies, because they have so often
striven to achieve hunches as though this expediency might result in attainable
outcomes, have been unsuccessful.
Growth Pattern Management 121Figure 4.1 Multiplier spiral for development.