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Pollution and City Size: Can Cities Be Too Small? [PDF]
Journal of Economic Geography, 2019 We study the optimal and equilibrium size of cities in a city system model with environmental pollution. Pollution is related to city size through the effect of population on production, commuting, and housing consumption.
Rainald Borck, Takatoshi Tabuchi
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City Size and Permanent Settlement Intention: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in China. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 The location choice and livelihoods of rural-urban migrants are critical to the sustainable development of cities. By using data from the China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS) in 2017, this paper extant the Rosen–Roback’s model by adding factors of urban ...
Song Y, Zhu N, Luo F, Luo F.
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Inequality and City Size. [PDF]
Rev Econ Stat, 2013 Abstract A strong positive monotonic relationship between wage inequality and city size developed between 1979 and 2007 in the United States. After accounting for differences in skill composition across cities of different sizes, we find that at least 23% of the nationwide increase in the variance of log hourly wages is explained by the ...
Baum-Snow N, Pavan R.
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The role of city size and urban form in the surface urban heat island. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2017 Urban climate is determined by a variety of factors, whose knowledge can help to attenuate heat stress in the context of ongoing urbanization and climate change. We study the influence of city size and urban form on the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon
Zhou B, Rybski D, Kropp JP.
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Urban Resilience and Its Links to City Size: Evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China
Land, 2023 Understanding the relationship between city size and resilience is crucial for informed decisions on preparedness and interventions in building resilient cities. This study addresses this issue by dividing urban resilience into four components: stability,
Liang Wang, Jingye Li, Ligang Lv
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Dynamics of the Size Distribution of the Russian Non-Capital Cities in the Post-Soviet Period [PDF]
Экономика региона, 2020 The urban system and its diversity are essential resources for economic development. At the intra-regional level, cities that do not have the status of the regional administrative centre shape the structure and diversity of the urban system.
Anna N. Bufetova
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 Cities in China are expanding and evolving innovatively at an accelerated rate. In this context, the question of whether all communities and individuals may benefit equally from urbanization and innovation merits investigation. We develop a two-way fixed-
Xinfang Zhang, Yu Fu, Haitao Zhuang
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Buildings, 2022 City size expansion in China creates substantial economic circulation, which impacts CO2 emissions. Since CO2 production primarily comes from human activities, CO2 emissions are mainly in cities.
Weidan Liu +4 more
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Effects of Polycentricity on Economic Performance and Its Dependence on City Size: The Case of China
Land, 2022 Polycentric planning strategies have often failed to achieve the expected effects. The ensuing uncertainty associated with the desirability of polycentric strategies is also reflected in the early literature which offers no clear conclusion about whether
Bindong Sun +3 more
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Do City Size and Population Density Influence Regional Innovation Output Evidence from China?
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2021 This paper proposed a substantial gap to a large-scale population density and city size on regional innovation output. To measure the impact of population density and city size on regional innovation output, this study employs the threshold effect model ...
Shukai Cai, Haocheng Wang, Xiaohong Zhou
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