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Closing the Gap: Territorial Cohesion through Polycentric Development

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2007
This article discusses and analyses national polycentric development policies aiming at cohesion. Due to its insertion in the 1999 European Spatial Development Perspective ‘polycentricity’ has become an important concept in discussions on Europe’s ...
Evert Meijers, Bas Waterhout, Wil Zonneveld   +2 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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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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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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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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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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Does Polycentric Development Improve Green Utilization Efficiency of Urban Land? An Empirical Study Based on Panel Threshold Model Approach

Land, 2022
In the context of increasing resource and environmental constraints, measurement and determinants of green utilization efficiency of urban land (GUEUL) is currently the subject of a rapidly expanding literature.
Siqi Yan, Jian Wang
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Unravelling the association between polycentric urban development and landscape sustainability in urbanizing island cities

Ecological Indicators, 2022
Polycentric urban development has become popular worldwide as expected to generate greater agglomeration externality and facilitate socioeconomic achievements.
Yi Pan, Lefeng Qiu, Zhenlin Wang, Jinxia Zhu, Min Cheng   +4 more
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Evaluation of Polycentric Spatial Structure in the Urban Agglomeration of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) Based on Multi-Source Big Data Fusion

Remote Sensing, 2021
The rapid development of the urban city has led to great changes in the urban spatial structure. Thus, analyses of polycentric urban spatial structures are important for understanding these kinds of structures.
Xiong He, Yongwang Cao, Chunshan Zhou
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Who's in charge here anyway? Polycentric governance configurations and the development of policy on invasive alien species in the semisovereign Caribbean

Ecology and Society, 2017
We address the development of policy by polycentric governance configurations, taking Caribbean overseas territories and their advancements on invasive alien species (IAS) policy as an example.
Jetske Vaas, Peter P. J. Driessen, Mendel Giezen, Frank van Laerhoven, Martin J. Wassen   +4 more
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