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Polycentric vs monocentric urban structure contribution to national development [PDF]
Journal 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]
Spatium, 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
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Remote 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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Enforcing the climate change act [PDF]
, 2015 This paper examines the enforceability of the duties in the Climate Change Act 2008 which require the UK’s GHG emissions to be reduced over time. Section B highlights how the Act’s other provisions must be interpreted so as to give proper support to ...
Church, Jonathan
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Concept of polycentricity-the differences between development policies and spatial reality
Journal 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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Wit, sentimentality and the image of women in the nineteenth century [PDF]
, 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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Can polycentric urban spatial structures reduce pollution aggregation?
Ecological IndicatorsIn 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
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Bulletin 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
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Ecology 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
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Ecology 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
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