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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]
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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Is a Ukrainian Standard of the Russian Language on the Agenda?
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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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 +3 more
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Evaluating Knee Mechanisms for Assistive Devices
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 +3 more
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The Feasibility Study of Applying Creative Multicenter Network Metropolitan Approach in the Metropolitan Area of the Central Mazandaran [PDF]
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 +2 more
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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 +1 more
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How does governing work today? How does society (mis)handle pressing challenges such as armed violence, cultural difference, ecological degradation, economic restructuring, geopolitical shifts, global pandemics, migration flows, and technological change in ways that are (not) democratic, effective, fair, peaceful, and sustainable? This volume addresses
Gadinger, F., Scholte, J.A.
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Cities, networks, polycentrism: examining the place of polycentrism in spaces of flows [PDF]
In a globalising world economy, cities have increasingly come to be defined not by their size in terms of built up area or population but by their functions in the networks constructed by cross-territorial capital flows. In contemporary inter-city networks, city regions are differentiated not only by their physical pattern of urban development but also
Pain, Kathy, Shi, Shuai
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AMERICA IN THE WORLD AFTER HEGEMONY
There are a variety of literatures that illuminate the logic and character of the post -Cold War transformation of the global system. One literature explores the rise and decline of the great powers and the international orders that they establish and ...
A. Y. Borisov
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