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La localisation du commandement de l’économie dominante
Belgeo, 2017 The paper examines the location of the headquarters of the World Top 500 and Top 2000 industrial corporations in 1978, 2000 and 2014. The first sub-period is characterised by the tertiarisation of the dominant economy and the weakening of the USA to the ...
Christian Vandermotten
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, 2018 This paper argues in favor of a new urban model that harnesses the power that cities have to curb global warming. Such a model tackles fundamental management challenges in the energy, building and transport sectors to promote the growth of diverse and ...
Bauer, Steffen +4 more
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Megacities without global functions
Belgeo, 2007 Present urban evolution is characterized by two major phenomena. On the one hand, the number of very large cities, the megacities, increases dramatically, especially in the less developed countries (LDCs).
Lise Bourdeau-Lepage, Jean-Marie Huriot
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The Critical Role of Public Charging Infrastructure [PDF]
, 2019 Editors: Peter Fox-Penner, PhD, Z. Justin Ren, PhD, David O. JermainA decade after the launch of the contemporary global electric vehicle (EV) market, most cities face a major challenge preparing for rising EV demand.
Fox-Penner, Peter +8 more
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The Mobility and/or Fixity of Urban and Planning Policies – The Role of Divergent Urban Planning Cultures [PDF]
, 2014 Cities and regions are increasingly interconnected on a global scale. In the process of the making of cities and regions policy actors increasingly rely on globally flowing and very mobile urban policy models, which have been originally developed in ...
Hamedinger, Alexander
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Urban ScienceTourism is a key component of many global cities, contributing to their development. This paper examines the relationship between the Travel and Tourism Development Index (TTDI) and the Presence of Global Cities (PGC).
Petra Vašaničová
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A New Role for Global Cities. The Genoa Case
Symphonya, 2004 Over recent years, strategic planning constituted for many Cities an effective answer to the problem of competitive territories’ development. In competitive land dynamics, through the adoption of strategic planning processes, the control of two ...
Raffaele Gazzari
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Corporate Responsibility and Corporate Governance in Europe
Symphonya, 2003 The policies adopted by multinationals have generated some rather harsh criticism due to the insensitivity shown with regard to the environment, food safety and social marginalisation.
Luca Bisio
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Cities, Global Cities and Glasgow - Some Reflections [PDF]
, 2016 Globally, cities are now the dominant locations for production, consumption and human settlement - and their number, scale and influence is set to increase in the century ahead.
Clark, Greg
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Climate Action In Megacities 3.0 [PDF]
, 2015 "Climate Action in Megacities 3.0" (CAM 3.0) presents major new insights into the current status, latest trends and future potential for climate action at the city level. Documenting the volume of action being taken by cities, CAM 3.0 marks a new chapter
A. Mark Fendrick +19 more
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