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Unpacking polycentricity at the city-regional scale: Insights from Dusseldorf and Stockholm
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2015 The normative concept of polycentricity has become a promising tool to pursue spatial policy goals such as spatial equity and justice, sustainable and balanced development, and, more recently territorial cohesion, at various scales across Europe.
Peter Schmitt +3 more
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Spatial patterns of knowledge-intensive business services in cities of various sizes, morphologies and economies [PDF]
, 2020 We compare intra-urban localization patterns of advertising and IT companies in three large Czech cities. The main aim of our analysis is an empirically-based contribution to the question to what extent do knowledge bases affect the spatial distribution ...
Ivan, Igor, Slach, Ondřej, Zenka, Jan
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Polycentricity and metropolitan governance. A Swiss case study [PDF]
, 2004 The concept of ‘polycentric spatial development’, a central principle of the European Spatial Development Perspective, is closely linked to the concept of ‘sustainable urban development’.
Alain Thierstein +3 more
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Urban Agglomerations: Approaches to the Allocation and Delimitation
Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2020 Currently, Russia has declared the need to develop a federal law “On urban agglomerations”; the development of urban agglomerations is declared as a necessary condition for ensuring economic growth and innovative development in the country.
E. V. Antonov
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Cybergeo, 2015 We analyze eight dimensions of the spatial structure of metropolitan regions in Europe. Our research is based on recent literature on the quantification of internal configurations of densities.
Florent Le Néchet
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Introduction: German Cities in the World City Network
Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2011 This introduction to the special issue “German cities in the world city network” provides an overview of the current status of research on urban systems in the knowledge economy, with a particular focus on the German urban system.
Alain Thierstein +2 more
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U.Porto Journal of EngineeringThis article proposes a discussion on the potential application of polycentricity strategies in the management of strategic transboundary natural resources, such as shared water bodies and river basins with regional potential for water supply and energy ...
Franklin Gabriel Menezes Gaspar +2 more
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Assessment of Functional Policentricity in the Romanian County Residence Municipalities [PDF]
Romanian Review of Regional Studies, 2016 In 2002, John Friedmann concluded that “Almost everyone will coexist in a single global urban network, which will operate on the basis of global competition.” These challenges were mentioned in the EU 2020 Strategy (EC, 2010), where European policy is ...
ANTONIO TACHE +2 more
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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From Theory to Practice: Mapping Polycentricity in Urban and Regional Studies
European Journal of Spatial DevelopmentPolycentricity has transformed from a normative European planning paradigm into a globally significant research framework shaping urban and regional development debates.
Ali Khodabandeh +1 more
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