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Nonlinear and synergistic effects of demographic characteristics on urban polycentric structure using SHAP [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Polycentric urban development is promoted by urban planners and policy makers for its perceived benefits of alleviating urban issues. Theoretically, a polycentric urban structure is formed when different demographic groups present a collection of diverse
Yichen Ruan, Xiaoyi Zhang, Mingyu Zhang, Feiyang Sun, Qiuxiao Chen   +4 more
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Unravelling the spatial directionality of urban mobility [PDF]

Nature Communications
As it is central to sustainable urban development, urban mobility has primarily been scrutinised for its scaling and hierarchical properties. However, traditional analyses frequently overlook spatial directionality, a critical factor in city centre ...
Pengjun Zhao, Hao Wang, Qiyang Liu, Xiao-Yong Yan, Jingzhong Li   +4 more
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The Formation of a Polycentric City in Transitional China in a Three-Level Analysis Framework: The Case Study of Hangzhou

Land, 2022
Given cities’ different development backgrounds, the spatial evolution of each city has a path-dependent development track. Understanding the characteristics of urban spatial structure evolution in contemporary China is essential for sustainable urban ...
Liang Zhang, Xianfan Shu, Jiaojiao Luo
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Theoretical Explanation of Polycentric Compact City Structure to Create a Sustainable Urban form [PDF]

جغرافیا و آمایش شهری منطقه‌ای, 2021
The spatial structure of cities has changed a lot after technological changes and population growth and they have shifted from a monocentric compact city structure to an extended and scattered structure that poses many challenges and they have made human
Mahmood Arvin, Ahmad Poor Ahmad
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Polycentric Spatial Structure Evolution and Influencing Factors of the Kunming–Yuxi Urban Agglomeration: Based on Multisource Big Data Fusion

Land, 2023
The polycentric spatial structure is the most common spatial form of urban agglomerations, so exploring the evolution of this structure and analyzing its influencing factors is of great significance for the optimization of the spatial structure of urban ...
Jun Zhang, Runni Zhang, Xue Zhang, Xiaodie Yuan   +3 more
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Evaluating Knee Mechanisms for Assistive Devices

Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022
State-of-the-art knee braces use a polycentric mechanism with a predefined locus of the instantaneous center of rotation (centrode) and most exoskeleton devices use a knee mechanism with a single axis of rotation.
Shawanee' Patrick, Namita Anil Kumar, Pilwon Hur, Pilwon Hur   +3 more
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La gestió participativa i el museu de la ciutat. Patrimoni, ciutadania i nodes culturals als barris de Barcelona / Participatory management and the city museum. Heritage, citizenship and cultural nodes in the neighbourhoods of Barcelona

Diferents, 2020
Si bé l’urbanisme funcionalista va permetre, fa mig segle, allotjar amb escassos recursos un gran nombre de persones que havien immigrat a la ciutat, també és cert que aquest modelno va trigar a mostrar la seva cara poc sostenible. Actualment
Joan Roca i Albert, Carme Turégano López   +1 more
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The Feasibility Study of Applying Creative Multicenter Network Metropolitan Approach in the Metropolitan Area of the Central Mazandaran [PDF]

جغرافیا و توسعه, 2016
Cities are considered as the bed for innovation and a place for driving creative energy of human being and also play an effective role in human capital concentration and management.
Sedigheh Lotfi, Mojtaba Shahabi Shahmiri, Elnaz Nikbakht   +2 more
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Is a Ukrainian Standard of the Russian Language on the Agenda?

Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal, 2020
This article discusses the pros and cons of the creation of a separate Ukrainian standard of the Russian language. Owing to the centralist and elitist history of the Russian standard language, the high variant of Russian that is used in Ukraine does not ...
Michael A. Moser
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Identifying China’s polycentric cities and evaluating the urban centre development level using Luojia-1A night-time light data

Annals of GIS, 2022
Studying the structure of polycentric cities can promote a better understanding of urban development and contribute to urban planning. In this study, we identified polycentric cities in China and evaluated the urban centre development level of ...
Zhiwei Yang, Yingbiao Chen, Zihao Zheng, Zhifeng Wu   +3 more
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