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Evaluation of the urban regions of Serbia: Functional polycentricity [PDF]

open access: yesGeographica 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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Megalopolis unbound: Knowledge collaboration and functional polycentricity within and beyond the Yangtze River Delta Region in China, 2014 [PDF]

open access: yesUrban 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 in Portugal: an evaluation [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Functional Polycentrism and Urban Network Development in the Greater South East UK: Evidence from Commuting Patterns, 1981-2001 [PDF]

open access: yesRegional 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literature on changing urban systems, it is often argued that the traditional central place conceptualisation is outdated and should be replaced by a network view that emphasises the increasing criss-crossing pattern of interdependencies ...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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Measuring polycentric structures of megaregions in China: Linking morphological and functional dimensions [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironment 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Discovering Urban Functional Polycentricity: A Traffic Flow-Embedded and Topic Modeling-Based Methodology Framework [PDF]

open access: yesSustainability, 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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Germany’s Polycentric Metropolitan Regions in the World City Network

open access: yesRaumforschung und Raumordnung, 2011
On a regional scale, two types of polycentricity can be observed. The first involves polycentric metropolitan regions that have evolved in the course of post-suburban development around a previously monocentric city, whereas the second type involves ...
Angelika Münter
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial Coupling of the Public Transport Network and the Tourism and Leisure Industry against the Background of Tourism Urbanization: A Case Study of Lijiang

open access: yesRedai dili, 2022
Tourism urbanization produces a transfer and concentration of elements, which greatly promotes the reshaping of urban spatial patterns. As a concentrated expression of urban tourism elements, tourism and leisure business pattern is the main factor in ...
Mao Runcai   +3 more
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Analysis of polycentricity of the South-East Region of Romania [PDF]

open access: yesUrbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii, 2019
Although its content is not clear enough, "polycentricity" has become, since the 1990s, an important concept that was at the core of discussions on territorial and economic development of Europe.
Sorin Daniel Manole   +1 more
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Democratic Hopes in the Polycentric City [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The polycentric model of municipal governance suggests that multiple jurisdictions may approximate an efficient market for local public services: citizens move to jurisdictions offering services they value at tax rates they are willing and able to pay ...
King, Loren
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