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Polycentric Urban Development: The Case of Hangzhou

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2010
Despite the advantages of polycentric structure and its rich literature drawn from cities in industialized countries, little attention has been paid to the study of polycentric urban development in developing countries based on land-use information. With Hangzhou used as a case study, the authors investigate polycentric urban development through an ...
Wenze Yue, Yong Liu, Peilei Fan
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Striving for Equity: Polycentric Development Policies in France

Built Environment, 2005
The predominant focus of development policy in France would appear at first sight to be combating the dominance of Paris. Indeed, while redistributing means from the He de France to weaker peripheral regions has long been the main strategy, the focus has gradually shifted from a zero-sum game to a positive-sum game.
Guy Baudelle, Jean Peyrony
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Polycentric Development Policies in Europe: Overview and Debate

Built Environment, 2005
The way the novel concept of polycentric development is used across Europe resembles a general pattern of diffusion of innovation: new ideas emerge at many different places simultaneously. However there are many different opinions about precisely what polycentric development is.
Bas Waterhout, Wil Zonneveld, Evert Meijers   +2 more
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Polycentric spatial development: institutional challenges to intermunicipal cooperation

Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft, 2011
Policies supporting a polycentric metropolitan spatial structure have been suggested as an effective way to achieve sustainable environmental, economic and social urban development.
Amy Rader Olsson, Göran Cars
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Polycentricity and Regional Development [PDF]

Annals of the University of Petrosani - Economics, 2009
The new European political target to reduce development disparities and a more appropriate distribution of development funds within regions. In the ESPON (European Spatial Planning Observation Network) since 2006 there have been studies on policentricity.
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Multilateral Development Banks in Polycentric World

World Economy and International Relations
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are increasingly considered on the international agenda as one of the significant institutions for financing sustainable growth in the developing countries. In this article main activities of the four largest regional development banks are analyzed in the context of the reforms necessary to increase the financial ...
L. Khudyakova, E. Sidorova
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Development of economic globalization under the conditions of polycentrism

OOO "Zhurnal "Voprosy Istorii", 2023
The purpose of this article is to analyze the transformational process of economic globalization itself, which received new impulses in the conditions of its combination with the ideas of building an American-centric world economy, and is transformed during the transition of the world community to a multipolar structure.
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Assessing polycentric development in terms of trip chaining efficiency

Cities, 2021
Abstract Polycentric urban growth with dense, diverse, and accessible centers is assumed to have multiple economic, social, and environmental benefits for the region. Yet, evidence on the benefits of polycentricity in the transportation sector remains less studied, and previous research has found mixed results.
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Polycentric Urban Dynamics-Heterogeneous Developers under Certain Planning Restrictions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
The paper is concerned with the formation of polycentric cities. The model we introduce includes two types of developers and planning authorities. Developers’ characteristics, such as scale of operations, availability of own-capital and time preferences lead to various decisions concerning the choice of location and development investment.
Dani Broitman, Daniel Czamanski
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Polycentric spatial development, externalities and cost-benefit analysis

The Annals of Regional Science, 1991
This article investigates the relevance of traditional cost-benefit analysis in the context of spatial development. More precisely, in a sequence of spatial models with two centers, we successively consider the impact of households' relocation and urban externalities (congestion, pollution) on the costs and benefits as far as transportation investments
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