Mountainous settlements accommodate nearly one tenth of the world’s population. Most mountainous cities have adopted the strategy of polycentric urban development due to an asymmetric geography, which has received little attention from mainstream ...
Wenze Yue +5 more
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Mega-City-Regions: on Awareness and Value Chain Approach [PDF]
Mega-City-Regions (MCR) as a new large-scale urban phenomenon have been gaining attention recently: In research, empirical studies address their functional consistency, and spatial planning policies underline the strategic role of MCRs for territorial ...
Agnes Forster +2 more
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Polycentricity, Performance and Planning: Concepts, Evidence and Policy in Barcelona, Catalonia
More than half of the world’s population currently lives in urban settlements, a proportion that is expected to increase to more than 65 percent by 2050 (UN, 2014).
Masip-Tresserra, Jaume; TU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment
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Too Much of a Good Thing? A Governing Knowledge Commons Review of Abundance in Context. [PDF]
Madison MJ +3 more
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Coalition-structured governance improves cooperation to provide public goods. [PDF]
Vasconcelos VV +3 more
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From climate adaptation to climate justice: Critical reflections on the IPCC and Himalayan climate knowledges. [PDF]
Chakraborty R, Sherpa PY.
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The concept of polycentric development has played a central role in the discussion of spatial development in Europe over the last 15 years. According to most definitions given in European planning concepts (ESDP) or scientific studies (ESPON 1.1.1 ...
Kramar, Hans, Kadi, Justin
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Uncovering structural diversity in commuting networks: global and local entropy. [PDF]
Marin V, Molinero C, Arcaute E.
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Impact of spatial structure of urban agglomerations on PM2.5 pollution:Based on resource misallocation. [PDF]
Wang S, Li M.
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Political Institutionalisation and Economic Specialisation in Polycentric Metropolitan Regions – The Case of the East-German ‘Saxony Triangle’ [PDF]
The rising attention of politicians as well as scientists in the EU to the large urban agglomerations as centres of economic growth is accompanied by political efforts to identify and to demarcate such agglomerations under the label ‘metropolitan regions’
Christoph Hornych, Peter Franz
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