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The Effects of Employment Center Characteristics on Commuting Time: A Case Study of the Seoul Metropolitan Area

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
The ongoing debate over whether polycentric urban structures reduce commuting times has yielded conflicting conclusions, highlighting the need for empirical findings in diverse urban contexts and analyses that consider a range of influencing factors ...
Sangyeon Nam, Sungjo Hong
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Planning for agglomeration economies in a polycentric region: Envisioning an efficient metropolitan core area in Flanders

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Spatial Development, 2018
To some degree, metropolitan regions owe their existence to the ability to valorize agglomeration economies. The general perception is that agglomeration economies increase with city size, which is why economists tend to propagate urbanization, in this ...
Kobe Boussauw   +6 more
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Institutional path dependence and environmental water recovery in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2016
The concept of institutional path dependence offers useful ways of understanding the trajectories of water policy reforms and how past institutional arrangements, policy paradigms and development patterns constrain current and future choices and limit ...
Graham R. Marshall, Jason Alexandra
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Analyzing polycentricity

open access: yes, 2016
Spatial restructuring processes occurred in many economically advanced countries with opposing forces of concentration and deconcentration leading to the emergence of polycentric urban configurations. However, diverging empirical approaches are applied in several studies – a matter that contributes to conceptual confusion and a ‘fuzzy’ use of the term ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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