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Democratic Hopes in the Polycentric City [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The polycentric model of municipal governance suggests that multiple jurisdictions may approximate an efficient market for local public services: citizens move to jurisdictions offering services they value at tax rates they are willing and able to pay ...
King, Loren
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Polycentric vs monocentric urban structure contribution to national development [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Engineering and Applied Science, 2021
AbstractThe debate about polycentricity and subordinacy has always been a critical topic that planners, economists, and socialists argued about for centuries. The idea of concentricity vs decentralization has affected all life metabolic activities. Urban structure has always been declared to be the key factor that affects life metabolism significantly.
Ashraf Sami Mahmoud Abozeid   +1 more
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Danube region strategy: Arguments for a territorial capital based multilevel approach [PDF]

open access: yesSpatium, 2010
During the last months the discussion on a strategy for the Danube Region as a new approach for a European macro-region has been intensified, predominantly within the area of Central and South-Eastern Europe.
Giffinger Rudolf, Suitner Johannes
doaj   +1 more source

Identification and Evaluation of the Polycentric Urban Structure: An Empirical Analysis Based on Multi-Source Big Data Fusion

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
Identifying and evaluating polycentric urban spatial structure is essential for understanding and optimizing current urban development. In order to accurately identify the urban centers of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), this study ...
Yuquan Zhou, Xiong He, Yiting Zhu
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Water Management on the Island of IJsselmonde 1000 to 1953: Polycentric Governance, Adaptation, and Petrification

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2012
One of the central tenets of adaptive management is polycentric governance. Yet, despite the popularity of the concept, few detailed case studies of polycentric governance systems exist. In this paper, we aim to partly fill this gap.
Erik Mostert
doaj   +1 more source

Wit, sentimentality and the image of women in the nineteenth century [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
Innovation and entrepreneurship have the potential to stimulate economic growth. Yet it remains unclear whether top-down or bottom-up innovations are more likely to lead to local economic development. By looking at three cases of frugal innovation on the
Walker, Nancy
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Concept of polycentricity-the differences between development policies and spatial reality

open access: yesJournal of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic, SASA, 2021
Contemporary scientific literature and strategic documents suggest the concept of polycentricity as a key factor and the aim of regional development policies. One of the aims of this study is to analyze spatial relations between the nodal regions and to determine (calculate) the level of polycentricity in the region of Vojvodina (Northern ...
Vedran Zivanovic   +4 more
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Can polycentric urban spatial structures reduce pollution aggregation?

open access: yesEcological Indicators
In response to the conflict between environmental management and economic and social progress, the Chinese government has launched a project to design a spatial framework for polycentric cities.
Xuechao Xia   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The efficiency of polycentric development strategies in the context of economic crisis. Case study - the development of Southwest Oltenia region - Romania

open access: yesBulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2012
Romania's polycentric development model was elaborated by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Researches on Territorial Dynamics within the University of Bucharest and by Urbanproiect SA.
Daniel Peptenatu   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2023
Many contemporary social and ecological challenges in forested ecosystems (climate change, invasive species, wildland-urban interface development, and wildfires) span multiple jurisdictions and are characterized by complex patterns of social and ...
R. Patrick Bixler   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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