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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
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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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Analyzing and Interpreting the Effects of the of Borrowed Size Concept on the Development of Small Towns (Case Study of Bahnamir) [PDF]

open access: yesجغرافیا 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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Exploring Employment Spatial Structure Based on Mobile Phone Signaling Data: The Case of Shenzhen, China

open access: yesLand, 2022
Debate on the shift from a monocentric to polycentric urban structure has been extensive. Polycentricity generally refers to the co-existence of several centers in a city.
Yani Lai   +3 more
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Revealing Characteristics of the Spatial Structure of Megacities at Multiple Scales with Jobs-Housing Big Data: A Case Study of Tianjin, China

open access: yesLand, 2021
Urban spatial structure reflects the organization of urban land use and is closely related to the travel patterns of residents. The characteristics of urban spatial structure include both static and dynamic aspects.
Ruixi Dong, Fengying Yan
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Polycentricity and Regional Ocean Governance: Implications for the Emerging UN Agreement on Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2021
The governance of the two-thirds of the world’s ocean in areas beyond national jurisdiction (the high seas and deep seabed beyond national jurisdiction or ABNJ) is currently fragmented into diverse institutions addressing specific activities, issues or ...
Kristina M. Gjerde   +1 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
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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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Unpacking polycentricity at the city-regional scale: Insights from Dusseldorf and Stockholm

open access: yesEuropean 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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