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FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS: Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Resilience in a noisy urban system

open access: yesRegional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract The ability of cities to recuperate from disturbances and return to their evolutionary pathways depends, first and foremost, on the type of damage that the shock created. But in addition, it depends on how information is transmitted in the urban system and on how noise filters distort the information that reaches economic agents.
Dani Broitman, Daniel Czamanski
wiley   +1 more source

THE LEGITIMACY TRAP: Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Literature on street vending regulation often emphasizes the challenges in enforcing legal frameworks due to unclear laws or insufficient state capacity. However, it tends to overlook diversity among vendors themselves along crucial parameters such as spatial location, community ties and processes of goods procurement.
Irene Farah
wiley   +1 more source

Local economic resilience and economic specialization in Greece during the crisis

open access: yesRegional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract This paper scrutinizes the issue of economic resilience, aiming to detect the existence of a systematic link with economic specialization. To this end, the paper conducts an empirical analysis at the local (i.e., municipal) level of Greece during the economic crisis period (2009–2015), providing cartographic visualizations and spatial ...
Panagiotis Artelaris   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

CHINESE UNIVERSITIES AS URBAN DEVELOPERS: The Tale of Two Innovation Complexes in Nanjing, China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Chinese universities are important but undertheorized players in the production of urban built environments. Most work focuses on purpose‐built university towns, neglecting the redevelopment of underutilized downtown campuses. Therefore, this article considers how two publicly funded universities in Nanjing attempted to establish ‘innovation ...
Hao Chen, Yunpeng Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

How Does New Quality Productivity Impact Land Use Efficiency? Empirical Insights from the Central Plains Urban Agglomeration

open access: yesLand
As a pivotal driver of high-quality development, new quality productivity (NQP) forms an indispensable synergistic relationship with land use efficiency (LUE) for achieving regional sustainability.
Shanshan Guo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal Trends and Exceedance Drivers of Ozone Concentration in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China [PDF]

open access: yes
The Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, characterized by high population density, an advanced transportation system, and a concentration of industrial activity, is one of the regions severely affected by O3 pollution in central and eastern China ...
Jian Wang, Junli Xu
core   +1 more source

HOUSING RETROFIT AND THE JUST TRANSITION IN THE METROPOLIS: Governance, Redistribution, and Inequality in London and Barcelona

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Metropolises are rapidly becoming spaces of stark inequalities. While much literature has emphasized the metropolitan scale as a driver of agglomeration economies, recent scholarship highlights either the ungovernable nature of large metropolises or the weak redistributive capacity of their governments as key causes of increasingly unequal ...
Lucía Cerrada Morato   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating and Enhancing Comprehensive Disaster Reduction in Mining Cities in the Central Plains Urban Agglomeration, China

open access: yesSustainability
This study focuses on 28 mining cities with the aim of promoting their sustainable development, particularly with regard to disaster resilience. The entropy-weight Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) model is adopted to measure comprehensive disaster reduction capacity, and spatial analysis/econometric models are ...
Chunyu Wei, Xiaobing Zhou
openaire   +1 more source

EVICT, NEGLECT, OR INVEST? Community Power and the Politics of Urban Informality Governance in Jakarta

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do some informal neighborhoods receive public investment while others are neglected or evicted? This article addresses the inconsistent governmental responses to informal settlements in Jakarta, Indonesia, during the democratic period. State actions range from violent evictions to tolerance and community‐led improvements.
Kadek Wara Urwasi
wiley   +1 more source

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