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Polycentric development in the spatial development policy of the Czech Republic
Urban Research & Practice, 2009The Policy of Territorial Development of the Czech Republic presents polycentric development, territorial cohesion, improved accessibility and support for regional clusters among its national priorities. This paper analyses the context and position of spatial development policy with reference to its powers and potentials to achieve these goals. It also
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POLYCENTRIC SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT—MEASURES, EXPLANATIONS, PERFORMANCE
183 pages ; The polycentric urban spatial structure has attracted extensive discussion from researchers and policymakers worldwide. Despite its recognition as a more representative contemporary urban spatial structure, research into polycentricity still confronts a set of challenges, including an ambiguous definition, a lack of empirical evidence ...openaire +2 more sources
Sustainable territorial development and concepts of polycentricity in Slovak territorial development
Urban Research & Practice, 2009This paper presents the situation and potentials for the development of polycentric structures within the Slovak settlement system in the context of spatial development in Central Europe. The trajectories in the development of the morphological and relational features of settlement structures are compared with official conceptual documents at the ...
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Polycentric Metropolitan Development: From Structural Assessment to Processual Dimensions
European Planning Studies, 2014AbstractIn this paper we aim to enhance the prevailing structural perspective on metropolization by pointing to the mutual relationship between the processes of metropolization and polycentric development. We claim that a processual view is needed to emphasize the temporal dependencies between different layers of polycentricity, and to reveal that ...
Rudolf Giffinger, Johannes Suitner
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Intra-metropolitan Agglomeration, Information Technology and Polycentric Urban Development
2004Abstract Defining the urban spatial structure of a city is closely related to identifying the spatial distribution of urban economic activities. By developing a spatial econometric framework, this chapter aims to investigate the urban spatial structure of Seoul in the 1990s, focusing on factors considered as the major driving forces of the location ...
Jungyul Sohn +2 more
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Polycentric Development to Combat Regional Disparities? the Relation Between Polycentricity and Regional Disparities in European Countries [PDF]
, 2006 Trends in regional disparities have been a major issue in regional science for many decades and knowledge of ways to overcome such disparities has great importance for regional policy-making. Strong initial differences between regions affect the capacity of each region to grow and their ability to respond to challenges imposed externally, for instance ...
Evert Meijers, Krister Sandberg
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Polycentric Urban Development - The European option
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Embracing Polycentricity within the Croatian Regional Development Policy
2007Our research is focusing on the potentials for implementation of polycentric development model in the context of future Croatian regional development. For that purpose we have calculated polycentricity index.
Bačić, Katarina, Šišinački, Jelena
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POLYCENTRIC DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT USING THE HIERARCHY METHOD
2012The concept „monocentric” describes inhabited agglomeration with one dominant centre. Latvia is a monocentric settlement with a strong main centre – Riga, which has a great specific weight in total economic system. At the same time Latvia has a wide, comparatively evenly distributed net of cities, the potential of which has not been properly used.
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