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From Clustered to Networked: Multi-Dimensional and Multi-Scale Performance Evaluation of Polycentric Urban Structure Evolution in Shenzhen, China

open access: yesLand
Polycentric urban structures are increasingly advocated to enhance economic efficiency, promote spatial equity, and support environmental sustainability.
Lipeng Duan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

High-level consumer services in polycentric urban regions - hospital care and higher education between duplication and complementarity [PDF]

open access: yes
In many European countries, territorial development strategies identify the development potential of so-called polycentric urban regions: regions in which a multitude of more or less similar-sized, formerly independent and distinct cities are located ...
Evert Meijers
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European Works Councils on the Periphery? A Case Study of a 'Global Economic Outpost' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
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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Challenging the ‘S’ of Mayoral Strategic Authorities: Standardisation over Strategy?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Labour government's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (EDCEB) represents the most ambitious attempt yet to embed devolution and ‘empower communities’ across England, completing the map of devolution under mayoral strategic authorities.
Nicholas P. Sweeney
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of metropolitan structure on commute behavior in the Netherlands: a multilevel approach [PDF]

open access: yes
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 development and local fertility in metropolitan regions

open access: yes, 2021
The present study verifies if spatial variability in local fertility reflects the shift from a monocentric dense settlement model towards a polycentric metropolis organised in central cores and subcentral locations. The spatial distribution of a crude birth rate in Barcelona's province was investigated for a long time span (1975 2018), identifying ...
López Gay, Antonio, Salvati, Luca
openaire   +2 more sources

FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS: Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Diversification of the dynamics of population size and the number of the employed in small and medium-sized Polish towns from 1995 to 2010

open access: yesBulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2014
This paper presents partial outcomes of the project called 'The Diversity of the Development Processes of Small and Medium-Sized Towns and its Influence on the Polycentric Development of Poland'.
Grażyna Korzeniak
doaj   +2 more sources

Arguments for Polycentricity in Romanian Regional Development in the Context of European Union Cohesion Policy

open access: yesEIRP Proceedings, 2012
Our study aims at analysing the monocentric/polycentric trends in Romanian regional developmentand formulating the recommendations regarding public policy for the attenuation of present developmentdisparities.
Clipa Raluca Irina   +2 more
doaj  

Polycentric intra-urban development of hotels: Evidence from Budapest [PDF]

open access: yesGeographia Polonica, 2019
The aim of the paper is to understand evolutionary changes of hotel intra-urban location policy during the period of the economic transition. Thus, the theoretical model of polycentric intra-urban development of hotel facilities is introduced in this research.
openaire   +1 more source

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