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Good Governance, Trade and Agglomeration [PDF]
We develop a model for developing countries that investigates the factors behind agglomeration of activities in urban giants. Firstly we show that relatively easier market access to external demand provided by the urban giant tends to attract ...
Candau, Fabien
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What Types of Knowledge‐Intensive Business Services Use Services as a Source of Innovation?
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines the factors that influence why knowledge‐intensive business services (KIBS) draw from other KIBS firms in their innovation activities. We provide new empirical evidence on specific firm‐level conditions under which the interactions between KIBS–KIBS are more (or less) likely to be observed. The effects of internal resources,
David Doloreux +2 more
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Terrorism and the resilience of cities [PDF]
The September 11 attacks in New York and Washington have forced Americans to confront the fact that to live or work in a large city is to be at greater risk of large-scale terrorism.
James Harrigan, Philippe Martin
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Archaeometric Analyses of Medieval Pottery from the Lower Danube Region, Romania
ChemPlusChem, EarlyView.This study is about the pottery manufacturing in the Lower Danube region during the Early Medieval period (8th–10th c. AD). Optical microscopy, Particle induced X‐ray emission, and X‐ray diffraction analyses performed on 32 representative ceramic shards excavated at Pantelimonu de Sus, Constanţa County, Romania, provide clues on the raw materials and ...
Constantin Haită +3 more
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Cuadernos de Geografía: Revista Colombiana de Geografía, 2013 The sector of La Candelaria (Bogotá D. C., Colombia) has once again become a place of residence and consumption for high-income groups that had abandoned the area in the mid-20th century due to multiple urban problems.
Adrian Smith Manrique Gómez
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Global Social Challenges JournalThis article provides the reader with a theoretical framework and a method of representing cities called cartographies of infrastructural imaginations. The study employs mapping methods from the fields of architecture, urban geography and visual cultures.
Ernesto Valero Thomas
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Clinical and Experimental Dental Research, EarlyView.Abstract Background Family plays a significant role in children's dental and oral health (DOH) elements, such as children's DOH knowledge and practice, the development of children's dental fear and anxiety (DFA), children's dental visits, and children's DOH status.
Wisnu Fadila +5 more
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A Centered Index of Spatial Concentration : Axiomatic Approach with an Application to Population and Capital Cities [PDF]
We construct an axiomatic index of spatial concentration around a center or capital point of interest, a concept with wide applicability from urban economics, economic geography and trade, to political economy and industrial organization.
Filipe R. Campante, Quoc-Anh Do
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Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the context of the rural public sphere as reflected in residents' consciousness of their volunteering potential. To this end, a qualitative study was conducted in two rural settlements belonging to the same regional municipality in northern Israel: one Jewish and the other Arab. The 32 interviewees who participated in the
Yasmin Aboud‐Halabi +1 more
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Monocentric Versus Polycentric Models in Urban Economics [PDF]
This article overviews the development of the formal modelling framework for the urban spatial structure which started in 1960s and grew dramatically thereafter.
Tomoya Mori
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