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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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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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Democratic Hopes in the Polycentric City [PDF]
, 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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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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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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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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Territorial Cohesion in the Context of Interregional and Transnational Cooperation [PDF]
, 2010 This paper draws on experience from the Interreg IIIC project ProgreSDEC, covering local and regional authorities from Greece, Italy, and Spain cooperating with each other in interregional and transnational projects.
Stein, Axel
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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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City regions and polycentricity: the East Midlands urban network [PDF]
, 2005 The aims of this paper were to clarify the meaning of the terms city region and polycentricy and to then examine evidence on urban centres in the East Midlands to see how far these terms describe the present configuration of the ...
Charles, D +3 more
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