Cross‐Modal Urban Sensing: Evaluating Sound–Vision Alignment Across Street‐Level and Aerial Imagery
Transactions in GIS, Volume 30, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Environmental soundscapes carry rich ecological and social information, yet remain underutilized in geographic analysis. This study introduces a unified cross‐modal evaluation framework to examine how urban sounds align with visual representations from street‐level and aerial perspectives, and how different visual representation strategies ...
Pengyu Chen +3 more
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Not all sprawl - Evolution of employment centers in Los Angeles, 1980 - 2000 [PDF]
Are contemporary metropolitan regions becoming more dispersed? The collective set of urban models tells us two stories. The first is that changes in the structure of the economy, ever faster and cheaper information and communications technologies, and ...
Christian Redfearn, Genevieve Giuliano
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Unraveling the Central State, But How? Types of Multi-Level Governance. IHS Political Science Series: 2003, No. 87 [PDF]
, 2003 The reallocation of authority upwards, downwards, and sideways from central states has drawn attention from a growing number of scholars in political science.
Hooghe, Liesbet, Marks, Gary
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Концепт: философия, религия, культураThe relevance of the research is due to the fundamental transformation of the system of international relations towards polycentricity, where, along with traditional factors of power, the role of communicative and value resources is increasing.
S. A. Semedov, A. R. Akberova
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The contribution of leisure and entertainment to the evolving polycentric urban network on regional scale - towards a new research agenda [PDF]
The urban landscape in advanced economies transforms from monocentric cities to polycentric urban networks on regional scale. The growing amount of research that is being devoted to this transformation sticks to classic activity systems like residential ...
Arie Romein
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Probing the position of the Jakarta metropolitan area in global inter-urban networks through the lens of manufacturing firms [PDF]
, 2017 This paper presents an analysis of the position of the Jakarta metropolitan area (JMA) in global inter-urban networks. Our starting point is our aim to provide a more nuanced understanding of the JMA’s connectivity in world city networks (WCNs).
Derudder, Ben +1 more
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Regional patterns in the achievement of the Lisbon Strategy: a comparison between polycentric regions and monocentric ones [PDF]
Polycentrism is a common feature of European urban systems. Lately, the concept has assumed a more normative relevance and it has been often considered as a pre-requisite for a more sustainable and balanced development across Europe. However, the effects
Enrico Giovannetti +2 more
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Mega-City-Regions: on Awareness and Value Chain Approach [PDF]
Mega-City-Regions (MCR) as a new large-scale urban phenomenon have been gaining attention recently: In research, empirical studies address their functional consistency, and spatial planning policies underline the strategic role of MCRs for territorial ...
Agnes Forster +2 more
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Polycentric metropolitan areas in Europe towards a unified proposal of delimitation [PDF]
Metropolitan areas concentrate the main share of population, production and consumption in OECD countries. They are likely to be one of the most important units for economic, social and environmental analysis as well as for the development of policy ...
Francesc Hernández +3 more
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ESPON Project 2.3.1., Application and effects of the ESDP in Member States. First Interim Report [PDF]
, 2005 This First Interim Report includes the initial results of the project "Application and Effects of the ESDP in the Member States" within the ESPON Programme 2000-2006.
Dematteis, Giuseppe +4 more
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