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Unpacking polycentricity at the city-regional scale: Insights from Dusseldorf and Stockholm

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Spatial Development, 2015
The normative concept of polycentricity has become a promising tool to pursue spatial policy goals such as spatial equity and justice, sustainable and balanced development, and, more recently territorial cohesion, at various scales across Europe.
Peter Schmitt   +3 more
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Polycentricity, Agglomeration, and Industrial Air Pollution in the Chinese City-Regions

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
With the rise of the city-regions development strategy, the impact of the spatial structure in city-regions on environmental pollution becomes an increasingly important issue related to sustainable regional development.
Xu Han, Jianmin Dou, Chenghui Tang
doaj   +1 more source

Cities, networks, polycentrism: examining the place of polycentrism in spaces of flows [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
In a globalising world economy, cities have increasingly come to be defined not by their size in terms of built up area or population but by their functions in the networks constructed by cross-territorial capital flows. In contemporary inter-city networks, city regions are differentiated not only by their physical pattern of urban development but also
Pain, Kathy, Shi, Shuai
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Polycentric Metropolitan Form: Application of a ‘Northern’ Concept in Latin America

open access: yesFootprint, 2009
Since the mid 20th century, large urban areas in advanced economies have experienced a fundamental transformation from relatively compact monocentric cities towards more extended polycentric metropolitan areas.
Arie Romein   +2 more
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Wildfire risk governance from the bottom up: linking local planning processes in fragmented landscapes

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2023
The growing scale of natural hazards highlights the need for models of governance capable of addressing risk across administrative boundaries. However, risk governance systems are often fragmented, decentralized, and sustained by informal linkages among ...
Matthew Hamilton   +2 more
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MEASURING POLYCENTRICITY OF MEGA-CITY REGIONS IN CHINA BASED ON THE INTERCITY MIGRATION FLOWS [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2016
This paper uses the intercity migration flows to examine relations between Chinese cities, identify the important mega-city regions and measure each region's polycentricity from an interaction perspective.
X. Mu, A. G. O. Yeh
doaj   +1 more source

Government by Code? Blockchain Applications to Public Sector Governance

open access: yesFrontiers in Blockchain, 2022
Studies of blockchain governance can be divided into analyses of the governance of blockchains (such as rules and power dynamics within a given network) and governance by blockchains (such as how blockchains can be implemented to improve self-governance ...
Pedro Bustamante   +16 more
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Polycentric Governing and Polycentric Governance

open access: yes, 2023
Abstract Existing literature has tended to define polycentric governance in the sense developed by the Bloomington School of Political Economy. In contrast, this chapter promotes polycentricity as a lens for analysing governance from an institutionalist perspective. Such an approach can be applied locally (e.g. to metropolitan, water,
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An Introduction to Polycentric Governing

open access: yes, 2023
Abstract The opening chapter sets out the overall motivation, context, concepts, and outline of the book. As its motivation, the volume pursues a question both compact in its formulation and sweeping in its implications: namely, how are we being governed today?
Gadinger, F., Scholte, J.A.
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Modeling the Polycentric Transition of Cities [PDF]

open access: yesPhysical Review Letters, 2013
11 pages, 12 ...
Louf, Rémi, Barthelemy, Marc
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