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Polycentric spatial development: Institutional challenges [PDF]
, 2010 Most metropolitan regions advocate cooperation among municipalities and bewteen public and private actors to plan and fund new housing and transportation infrastructure.
Cars, Göran, Olsson, Amy Rader
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Silk Road Heritage Branding and Polycentric Tourism Development [PDF]
Sustainability, 2021 Cultural heritage, considered as a tool for sustainable tourism development and place branding, makes a destination appealing to visitors; hence, cultural heritage tourism can be a driving force for economic growth in cities and regions. Polycentricity is a useful multi-scalar concept in spatial theory that describes how adjacent urban centers can ...
Kostopoulou, Stella +2 more
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Croatia's Potential for Polycentric Development
Drustvena istrazivanja, 2014 The purpose of this paper is to analyse Croatia's potential to integrate the concept of polycentric development – an even development of equally spaced urban centres which also aims at lessening regional disparities – into its regional development policy.
Bačić, Katarina, Šišinački, Jelena
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Frontiers in Physics, 2022 Polycentric city-regional development has become a buzzword for urban scholars and planners around the world. Inspired by the two critical characteristics of the polycentric urban region (PUR) as incubators and hinges of knowledge production, this study ...
Chenghui Tang, Jianmin Dou
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Polycentric urban development and urban amenities: Evidence from Chinese cities [PDF]
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2020 The recent literature on the “consumer city” and the “love of variety” argues that the provision of urban amenities makes a city more attractive. Meanwhile, polycentric urban development has been highlighted by academics and policymakers as a sustainable urban development regime, although its purported benefits need to be further investigated. Against
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Polycentric Security Governance and Sustainable Development in the Global South [PDF]
CrimRxiv, 2020 Policing in much of the developing world has always been, in many respects, both dominated by the nonstate and pluralised. Yet, plurality and the nonstate are predominantly conceptualised, by scholars and practitioners alike, as problematic, noninclusive and/or undemocratic. Yet the reality is far more complex than this.
Berg, Julie, Shearing, Clifford
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Measuring polycentric urban development: The importance of accurately determining the ‘balance’ between ‘centers’ [PDF]
Cities, 2021 In recent years, much research has been devoted to developing appropriate analytical frameworks to capture polycentric urban development (PUD). In a recent contribution to this journal, Bartosiewicz and Marcińczak (2020) present what is arguably the most comprehensive, comparative review to date of the degree to which different analytical frameworks ...
Derudder, Ben +5 more
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A hypothesis on a comprehensive approach to managing the urban polycentralization of post-socialist metropolitan areas [PDF]
Spatium, 2020 Managing the polycentralization of metropolitan areas can contribute to a more even pace of development of builtup areas; it can also increase the economic and temporary accessibility of urban centers. This study, attempts to synthesize the main
Zhukovsky Roman
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The Impact of Polycentric Structure on CO2 Emissions: Evidence from China
Applied Sciences, 2023 Driven by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the importance of sustainable urbanization has taken center stage. In this study, we investigate the impact of polycentric structures on CO2 emissions using data from 279 Chinese cities and employing
Jing Wen +4 more
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Application of Polycentric Urban Region concept in Iran’s Metropolitan Areas [PDF]
مسکن و محیط روستا, 2020 Application of Polycentric Urban Regions concept in Iran’s Metropolitan Areas Theoretical Origin: Looking at the research on polycentric urban regions, two approaches can be distinguished: The first approach: looking upon the similarity of a polycentric ...
Ali Farnam
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