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Exploring the Polycentric Structure and Driving Mechanism of Urban Regions From the Perspective of Innovation Network

open access: yesFrontiers in Physics, 2022
Polycentric city-regional development has become a buzzword for urban scholars and planners around the world. Inspired by the two critical characteristics of the polycentric urban region (PUR) as incubators and hinges of knowledge production, this study ...
Chenghui Tang, Jianmin Dou
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Unravelling the association between polycentric urban development and landscape sustainability in urbanizing island cities

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2022
Polycentric urban development has become popular worldwide as expected to generate greater agglomeration externality and facilitate socioeconomic achievements.
Yi Pan   +4 more
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Polynuclearity as a Spatial Measure of Urban Sprawl: Testing the Percentiles Approach

open access: yesLand, 2021
Polynuclearity and polycentricity are spatial phenomena which overlap each other in the context of urban sprawl, and this sometimes hinders the possibility of clearly distinguishing the two.
Piotr Lityński, Piotr Serafin
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Measuring polycentricity: a whole graph embedding perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Polycentricity is a critical characteristic of the spatial organization of cities. Many indices have been proposed to measure the degree of morphological polycentricity or functional polycentricity.
Weibel, Robert   +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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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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