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“Metropolitan Parks” in Southern Barcelona: Key Nodes at the Intersection of Green Infrastructure and the Polycentric Urban Structure

Land
Contemporary urban planning faces the ongoing challenge of developing Green Infrastructure capable of providing vital ecosystem services. Within this framework, the Barcelona metropolitan area has advanced a network of parks that, while serving local ...
Joan Florit-Femenias, Carles Crosas, Aleix Saura-Vallverdú   +2 more
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New Technologies for Sustainable Urban Transport in Europe [PDF]

, 2006
In the past few years, the European Commission has financed several projects to examine how new technologies could improve the sustainability of European cities. These technologies concern new public transportation modes such as guided buses to form high
Parent, Michel
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URBAN STRUCTURE: ITS ROLE IN URBAN GROWTH, NET NEW BUSINESS FORMATION AND INDUSTRIAL CHURN [PDF]

Cities are the “engines of growth” because entrepreneurial and cre-ative activities are concentrated in cities. This suggests that cities grow by host-ing new businesses and “churning” industries advantageously.
Bumsoo LEE, Peter GORDON
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A Novel Centrality-Based Attack Simulation: Evaluating Resilience and Vulnerability in China’s Knowledge Networks

Systems
Existing research on the vulnerability of knowledge innovation networks (KINs) primarily falls into two categories: random attacks and deliberate attacks. This study introduces a novel centrality-based attack framework for the deliberate attack group and
Tianxing Zhu, Jinyang Liu, Changxin Song, Xuan Miao, Sheng Zhu   +4 more
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Not all sprawl - Evolution of employment centers in Los Angeles, 1980 - 2000 [PDF]

Are contemporary metropolitan regions becoming more dispersed? The collective set of urban models tells us two stories. The first is that changes in the structure of the economy, ever faster and cheaper information and communications technologies, and ...
Christian Redfearn, Genevieve Giuliano
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The European Union: the polycentric climate leader? [PDF]

, 2013
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Economic Debate On Spatial Functional Linkages And Its Application to Key Spatial Development Challanges In Poland [PDF]

This article presents a synthesis of today's world economic knowledge and the results of the analyses concerning: a) the nature of spatial functional linkages, including network structures, b) diversity of approaches concerning the application of spatial
Jacek Zaucha
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Re-structuring competetive metropolitan regions: on territory, institutions and governance. RheinRuhr compared with London, Paris and the Randstad Holland [PDF]

Currently social and political constructed urban regions are about to approach a threefold role regarding their functional, economic and political function. At first they constitute a basis for economic and social life.
Knapp, Wolfgang, Schmitt, Peter
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Monocentric Versus Polycentric Models in Urban Economics [PDF]

This article overviews the development of the formal modelling framework for the urban spatial structure which started in 1960s and grew dramatically thereafter.
Tomoya Mori
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Budget revenue in function of public requirements Satisfaction of self-governing units of Croatia

Ekonomski Vjesnik, 2008
Within the framework of theory and exact examination in the established system of self-governing units in the Republic of Croatia (communes, cities and counties), the work carried out the research of functioning and budgetary sufficiency of the means ...
Branko Matić, Ivica Čulo
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