Abstract The so-called Buchanan report, commissioned by the Irish government and published in May 1969, comprised a set of proposals for regional industrial development in Ireland over the period 1966–86. The main thrust of the report was the concentration of the great bulk of new industrial employment creation in Dublin and eight proposed ‘growth centres’. The plan provided for the creation of powerful planning authorities to oversee development in the regions. The government rejected these proposals and opted instead to continue with the existing policy of widespread dispersal of new industry. While meeting with initial success, this policy proved unsustainable in the long term. The paper reviews the implications of the Buchanan report experience for the regional planning process in Ireland, arguing that failure to learn from this experience served to undermine the National Spatial Strategy, with a similar fate likely for the forthcoming National Planning Framework.

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布坎南报告及其后果：对爱尔兰区域规划的影响

摘要 由爱尔兰政府委托并于 1969 年 5 月发表的所谓布坎南报告包括了 1966-86 年期间爱尔兰区域工业发展的一系列建议。该报告的主旨是将大量新工业就业创造集中在都柏林和八个拟议的“增长中心”。该计划规定建立强大的规划机构来监督该地区的发展。政府拒绝了这些提议，而是选择继续实施广泛分散新产业的现有政策。虽然取得了初步成功，但从长远来看，这一政策被证明是不可持续的。该论文回顾了布坎南报告经验对爱尔兰区域规划过程的影响，