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Les trajectoires des spécialisations industrielles dans les villes petites et moyennes en France
EchoGéo, 2023 Deindustrialization remains a key concept to describe the evolution of small and medium-sized cities. In France, industrial employment is still decreasing, especially in shrinking cities.
Ivan Glita
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Urbanization in a historical perspective [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Russia is one of the highly urbanized countries, so the question of the prospects for developing urban processes is very relevant. Currently, there are two processes in our country: the growth of large cities, their transformation into agglomerations ...
Zaborova Elena
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Small Cities Blues: Looking for Growth Factors in Small and Medium-Sized Cities [PDF]
Economic Development Quarterly, 2004 The purpose of this exploratory study is an attempt to identify public policies that have the potential to increase the economic viability of smaller metropolitan areas and cities. The authors identify characteristics associated with smaller metro areas that performed better than expected (winners) and worse than expected (losers) during the 1990s. The
Erickcek, George A., McKinney, Hannah J.
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Smaller is smarter: A case for small to medium-sized smart cities
Journal of Smart Cities and Society, 2022 Smart Cities have been around as a concept for quite some time. However, most examples of Smart Cities (SCs) originate from megacities (MCs), despite the fact that most people live in Small and Medium-sized Cities (SMCs). This paper addresses the contextual setting for smart cities from the perspective of such small and medium-sized cities.
Nowaczyk, Sławomir +9 more
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Réindustrialiser les territoires, la revanche des villes petites et moyennes ?
EchoGéo, 2023 After decades of decline, industrial employment has been increasing in Europe and France since 2016. The crises are forcing us to rethink production methods and the economic sovereignty of countries, but also the territorial reconfigurations of ...
Marjolaine Gros-Balthazard +1 more
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SAGE Open, 2023 This study addresses the impacts of high-speed rail (HSR) on the employment rate on the periphery of HSR-connected cities. Using the Chinese municipal-level data sets of 2001 to 2017s, we have found that HSR could improve the average employment in ...
Nannan Yu, Tianhang Cui, Si Lv
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Extended urbanization in small and medium-sized cities: The case of Cirebon, Indonesia [PDF]
Habitat International, 2014 Although urbanization in smaller cities is arguably not imperative, the future of urban living is no longer expected to be principally in mega-cities. People increasingly live in intermediate and smaller cities, in line with the proportion of people residing in urban areas, which is also gradually rising. Smaller cities in Indonesia, like other smaller
Fahmi, Fikri +3 more
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Sustainable development of the Russian-Ukrainian border zone cities [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The article discusses one of the burning issues of increasing the efficiency of local self-government, namely, the introduction of effective practices for sustainable development of border zone cities.
Sapryka Viktor +3 more
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Cidades médias - Contributos para a sua definição [PDF]
Finisterra - Revista Portuguesa de Geografia, 2002 MEDIUM-SIZED CITIES – HOW TO DEFINE THEM. The concept of medium-sized city was first referred to in France at the end of the 1960s when the 6th Economic and Social Development Policy was under preparation (1971-76).
Eduarda Marques da Costa
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Wired Cities — Opportunities for small and medium sized cities on the Information Highway [PDF]
, 1996 Certainly one of the most fascinating developments in a world economy whose basic productive infrastructure is made up of information flows and communication media, are cities and regions becoming the “critical agents” of the economic development. Since regions and cities are more flexible in adapting to changing conditions of markets, technologies and
Strauß, Ralf E. +2 more
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