Does spatial functional division in urban agglomerations reduce negative externalities in large cities? Evidence from urban agglomerations in China [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 The spatial unit of urban agglomerations is extremely important for reducing negative externalities in large cities. Although there is a large body of literature on reducing negative externalities within a single city, few studies have focused on the ...
Songlin Zhang +3 more
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Evaluation of the urban regions of Serbia: Functional polycentricity [PDF]
Geographica Pannonica, 2020 The subject of this paper is an evaluation of defined urban regions in Serbia, with an aim towards identifying their basic features, with special emphasis on the measurement of their functional polycentricity.
Živanović Zora +2 more
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Combining urban scaling and polycentricity to explain socio-economic status of urban regions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 The fast pace of urbanisation may benefit or be detrimental to the socio-economic status of urban areas. Understanding how the configuration of urban areas influences the socio-economic status of their inhabitants is of crucial importance for urban ...
Amin Khiali-Miab +3 more
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Frontiers in Physics, 2022 Polycentric city-regional development has become a buzzword for urban scholars and planners around the world. Inspired by the two critical characteristics of the polycentric urban region (PUR) as incubators and hinges of knowledge production, this study ...
Chenghui Tang, Jianmin Dou
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CONCEPT OF POLYCENTRICITY—THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT POLICIES AND SPATIAL REALITY
Zbornik Radova: Geografski institut "Jovan Cvijić", 2021 Contemporary scientific literature and strategic documents suggest the concept of polycentricity as a key factor and the aim of regional development policies.
Vedran Živanović +4 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2022 Polycentric urban development has become popular worldwide as expected to generate greater agglomeration externality and facilitate socioeconomic achievements.
Yi Pan +4 more
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Polynuclearity as a Spatial Measure of Urban Sprawl: Testing the Percentiles Approach
Land, 2021 Polynuclearity and polycentricity are spatial phenomena which overlap each other in the context of urban sprawl, and this sometimes hinders the possibility of clearly distinguishing the two.
Piotr Lityński, Piotr Serafin
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Measuring polycentric structures of megaregions in China: Linking morphological and functional dimensions [PDF]
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2020 The idea of megaregions, which focuses on polycentricity, competitiveness, and integration attracts much attention in research and policy. China has used megaregions as a normative governance framework that leverages polycentric regional development for balancing economic competitiveness and spatial development.
Wei Chen, Oleg Golubchikov, Zhigao Liu
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Discovering Urban Functional Polycentricity: A Traffic Flow-Embedded and Topic Modeling-Based Methodology Framework [PDF]
Sustainability, 2020 With the rapid development of communication and transportation technologies, the urban area is increasingly becoming an ever more dynamic, comprehensive, and complex system. Meanwhile, functional polycentricity as a distinctive feature has been characterizing urban areas around the world.
Wang, Shaodong +4 more
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Analyzing and Interpreting the Effects of the of Borrowed Size Concept on the Development of Small Towns (Case Study of Bahnamir) [PDF]
جغرافیا و توسعه, 2021 In recent years, some researchers have used the concept of "Borrowed size" as a justification for the efficiency of small and medium-sized cities in Poly-centric urban regions.
Sedigheh Lotfi, Mojtaba Shahabi Shahmiri
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