Do Intercommunity Development Associations Favour Polycentric Development? An Analysis of Territorial Policies of the EU [PDF]
For more than two decades now, amongst some of the concepts put forth by informal and official documents of the EU we find polycentric development. The term has been extensively studied in many research papers sparking interest in other parts of the ...
Cosmin CHIRIAC
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The contribution of leisure and entertainment to the evolving polycentric urban network on regional scale - towards a new research agenda [PDF]
The urban landscape in advanced economies transforms from monocentric cities to polycentric urban networks on regional scale. The growing amount of research that is being devoted to this transformation sticks to classic activity systems like residential ...
Arie Romein
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Planning for Polycentricity: The Development of a Regional Plan for the Oslo Metropolitan Area
Polycentricity has become a principle of strategic regional planning in order to con- centrate land use and optimise infrastructure. This paper discusses the possibilities and challenges for a polycentric strategy in relation to Norwegian regional planning.
Bergsli, Heidi, Harvold, Kjell Arve
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European Works Councils on the Periphery? A Case Study of a 'Global Economic Outpost' [PDF]
European Works Councils (EWCs) are now an established part of industrial relations structures in approaching 600 multinational companies with potentially 10,000 or more employee participants(EIRR 2000).
Fitzgerald, Ian, Stirling, John
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THE DIRECTION OF LATVIA FROM MONOCENTRIC TO POLYCENTRIC DEVELOPMENT
The economic constraints of Latvia have been connected with the unstable development of regions and city nets. The state territory characterizes the peculiarity of monocentric territory. In territories, which are located outside the monocentric place of action, the problems of economic development are main reasons for social and physical problems.
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The paper describes spatial features identification of the population trading service development in Kharkiv region with the use of the univariate statistical analysis.
Pavlo Kobylin +3 more
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The impact of metropolitan structure on commute behavior in the Netherlands: a multilevel approach [PDF]
The effect of decentralization of land uses on travel behavior remains an unresolved issue in the academic literature. Some US researchers argue that a tendency towards polycentrism is associated with decreasing commute times and distances.
Dieleman, Frans M. +2 more
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Polycentric urban structures are increasingly advocated to enhance economic efficiency, promote spatial equity, and support environmental sustainability.
Lipeng Duan +3 more
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Polycentric development practice in master planning: the case of China
Towards the end of the twentieth century, polycentricity was introduced into China as a planning concept.
Cheng, Hui, Shaw, David
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Polycentric Development to Combat Regional Disparities? the Relation Between Polycentricity and Regional Disparities in European Countries [PDF]
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
Evert Meijers, Krister Sandberg
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