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ECONOMIC MEASUREMENT OF OPTIMAL CITY SIZE: THE CASE OF WEST SUMATRA, INDONESIA [PDF]
Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, 2022 This is an empirical study of economic measurement of the optimal size of seven cities in West Sumatra region, Indonesia. The empirical findings are quite interesting since the calculated optimal city size does not result in a single measure as mostly ...
Sjafrizal, Suhairi, Winarno, Taosige WAU
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Impacts of Urban Expansion on Relatively Smaller Surrounding Cities during Heat Waves
Atmosphere, 2019 Urban-induced thermal stress can threaten human health, especially during heat waves (HWs). The growth of cities further exacerbates this effect. Here, weather research and forecasting (WRF) with an urban canopy model (UCM) is used to assess the effects ...
Bei Huang +2 more
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Land, 2022 Cities enhance the efficiency of green development among themselves through their borrowing population, economic activities density and advanced functions, but the positive green effect of the borrowing size is affected by the city size. Using panel data
Aijun Guo +4 more
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City Size and Household Consumption in China
Land, 2022 Agglomeration and dispersion forces fundamentally determine urban and regional development. While traditional views on agglomeration forces are primarily from a production perspective, the growing literature focuses on the consumption perspective and ...
Chengri Ding, Zhi Li
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City size distributions and metropolisation [PDF]
Géographes associés, 1997 Many controversial questions about the shape and evolution of city size distributions can be solved if reliable, large and comparable set of date are used for several countries. We provide new empirical evidence by using the large data base ‘Geopolis’, which has strictly comparable figures for all towns and cities of the world over 10000 inhabitants ...
Pumain, Denise +1 more
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Effects of digital economy and city size on green total factor productivity
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 Utilizing the digital economy’s contribution to green total factor productivity is a key strategy for accelerating China’s green growth, although more research is still needed to understand the mechanism of this influence. This study uses panel data from
Zejie Liu +3 more
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Zhongguo dianli, 2020 Urbanization is closely related to energy development. Based on a case study of Suzhou city Wuzhong district, the urbanization characteristics of Wuzhong district are analyzed from the aspects of history, geography, population and economical industry ...
Chanxia ZHU +6 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Previous research has explored ‘community size effects’ in a multitude of sporting and regional contexts and has shown that athletes are more likely to originate from small-medium population size categories, and less likely to originate from very small ...
Lou Farah +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2019 Using artificial light data measured from satellites has the potential to change research methods in geography and urban planning. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Optical Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) night-time light datasets provided ...
Mingyu Kang, Meen Chel Jung
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Pollution and city size: can cities be too small? [PDF]
Journal of Economic Geography, 2016 Abstract We study optimal and equilibrium sizes of cities in a city system model with pollution. Pollution is a function of population size. If pollution is local or per-capita pollution increases with population, equilibrium cities are too large under symmetry; with asymmetric cities, the largest cities are too large and the smallest ...
Rainald Borck, Takatoshi Tabuchi
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