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Polycentricity and state reinforced self-governance: the case of the New York City watersheds governing arrangement

Ecology and Society
Social-ecological systems are often governed through polycentric governing arrangements comprising independent centers of decision making that interact through coordination, cooperation, competition, and conflict across different functional domains.
Edella C Schlager, Tomás Olivier, Timothy E Cox, Jeffrey W Hanlon   +3 more
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Relieving Beijing’s Nonessential Capital Functions: Metropolitan Area Polycentricity for Sustainability

Land
This study explores the transformation of Beijing’s metropolitan commuting network resulting from the relief of the non-essential capital functions policy. The aim is to understand how this policy has contributed to the development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration.
Yongheng Feng, Qing Lu
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

What can lithics tell us about food production during the transition to farming? Exploring harvesting practices and cultural changes during the neolithic in Southwest Asia: a view from Qminas (north‐western Syria)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that ...
Fiona Pichon, Osamu Maeda, Juan José Ibáñez Estévez, Patricia Anderson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying functional agglomerations and urban centers using open-source data and machine learning: Framework, applications and planning implications

Journal of Urban Management
Metropolitan polycentricity is a topic that has been extensively studied. Traditional approaches to identifying urban centers have relied on high-resolution survey data, which is limited in many regions. More recent studies utilizing open-access point of
Pengyu Zhu, Jianqi Li, Zining Wang
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Assessing the Functional Polycentricity of the Mega-City-Region of Central Belgium Based on Advanced Producer Service Transaction Links [PDF]

Regional Studies, 2013
Hanssens H., Derudder B., van Aelst S. and Witlox F. Assessing the functional polycentricity of the mega-city-region of Central Belgium based on advanced producer service transaction links, Regional Studies. This paper comments on three aspects of POLYNET's implementation of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) model to measure functional ...
Hanssens, Heidi, Derudder, Ben, Van Aelst, Stefan, Witlox, Frank   +3 more
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From Open Banking Regulation to Platform Orchestration: The Evolution of Digital Platform Governance

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study contributes to information systems (IS) scholarship by extending platform governance theory to regulatory contexts, explaining how regulatory forces co‐evolve with technological architectures to shape openness and control. This research examines the evolution of platform governance in the context of open banking, where regulatory ...
Priyadharshini Muthukannan, Daniel Gozman, Barney Tan, Prakash Dhavamani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Delineating polycentric megacity regions based on intra- and extra-regional economic transactions between emerging high-tech industries and producer services: a case study on the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, China

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Polycentric megacity regions (MCRs) have been widely recognised as pivotal engines of economic development, the study of which necessitates scholarly attention to the up-to-date economic dynamics underpinning regional competitiveness and refining spatial
Jili Xu, Xu Zhang, Haitao Ma, Yuyao Ye
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Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of urban structure on commuting: an analysis for the main metropolitan systems in Spain [PDF]

, 2017
It is widely recognised that urban mobility is responsible for the generation of an important proportion greenhouse gasses produced by households, at the time that it has important social and economic implications for urban sustainability.
Marmolejo Duarte, Carlos Ramiro, Tornés, Moira   +1 more
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