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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Investigating the impacts of urban agglomeration spatial structures on carbon emissions based on spatial networks of cities [PDF]
Scientific ReportsQuantifying the relationships between urban agglomeration spatial structures and carbon emissions yields insights for developing sustainable, low-carbon urban agglomerations.
Ge Tan +6 more
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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.
Shaodong Wang, Weihua Zhou
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Megalopolis unbound: Knowledge collaboration and functional polycentricity within and beyond the Yangtze River Delta Region in China, 2014 [PDF]
Urban Studies, 2016 Recent work on world city networks, urban polycentricity and megapolitan urban forms share an interest in the economic functionality of inter-city linkages.
Li, Y, Phelps, N
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Functional Polycentrism and Urban Network Development in the Greater South East UK: Evidence from Commuting Patterns, 1981-2001 [PDF]
Regional Studies, 2009 In contemporary literature on changing urban systems, it is often argued that the traditional central place conceptualisation is outdated and should be replaced by a network view that emphasises the increasing criss-crossing pattern of interdependencies ...
Burger, M.J. (Martijn) +3 more
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Functional Polycentrism in Portugal: an evaluation [PDF]
, 2011 This paper aims at develop an evaluation of the functional polycentrism of Portuguese municipalities. For that purpose, we develop a critical assessment of the concept of polycentrism and functional polycentrism whose assumptions guide most of the ...
Campos, Pedro +2 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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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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