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BEYOND POSTSUBURBIA? MULTIFUNCTIONAL SERVICE AGGLOMERATION IN VIENNA'S URBAN FRINGE [PDF]

, 2011
Marco Helbich
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The financialization of housing and its political consequences

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Institutional investors in residential real estate have become targets of political backlash against unaffordable housing. We argue that this backlash is not only about economic issues such as rising rents; it reflects a fundamental rejection of “financialized capitalism” that turns housing from a basic need into a speculative asset.
Rafaela Dancygier, Andreas Wiedemann
wiley   +1 more source

Do rent-seeking and interregional transfers contribute to urban primacy in sub-Saharan Africa? [PDF]

We develop an economic geography model where mobile skilled workers choose to either work in a production sector or to become part of an unproductive elite.
Alain Pholo Bala, Kristian Behrens
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Measurement of Urban–Rural Integration Development Level and Diagnosis of Obstacle Factors: Evidence from the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Urban Agglomeration, China

Land
Advancing urban–rural integration (URI) is pivotal to addressing the current urban–rural development imbalance in China. The urban agglomeration, as a crucial engine propelling China’s modernization, holds significant importance in accelerating this ...
Qiuyi Wu, Wei Chang, Mengfei Song, Honghui Zhu   +3 more
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Megacities and Large Urban Agglomerations in the Coastal Zone: Interactions Between Atmosphere, Land, and Marine Ecosystems [PDF]

, 2012
R. von Glasow, Tim Jickells, Alexander Baklanov, Gregory R. Carmichael, T. M. Church, Laura Gallardo, Claire Hughes, Maria Kanakidou, Peter S. Liss, Laurence Mee, Robin Raine, Purvaja Ramachandran, R. Ramesh, Kyrre Sundseth, Urumu Tsunogai, Mitsuo Uematsu, Tong Zhu   +16 more
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Aerosol Measurements and Decadal Changes: The Role of Climatic Changes and How It Reflects in Respiratory Allergies and Asthma

Allergy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The causative agents of respiratory allergies are bioaerosols, such as house dust mite feces, pollen grains, and fungal spores. Climate change and urbanization are considered to lead to an increase in the load of allergenic bioaerosols due to impacts on plant phenophases and allergenicity. Continuous and efficient monitoring of the atmospheric
Stelios Kazadzis, Illias Fountoulakis, Athanasios Damialis, Akriti Masoom, Kyriakoula Papachristopoulou, Stefanie Gilles, Martine Collaud Coen, Fiona Tummon, Benoît Crouzy, Bernard Clot, Yagiz Pat, Marie‐Charlotte Brüggen, Stephan Nyeki, Ioannis‐Panagiotis Raptis, Stavros Solomos, Antonis Gkikas, Anna Moustaka, Natalia Kouremeti, Cezmi A. Akdis   +18 more
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Survival of the Fittest in Cities: Agglomeration, Selection, and Polarisation [PDF]

Empirical studies consistently report that labour productivity and TFP rise with city size. The reason is that cities attract the most productive agents, select the best of them, and make the selected ones even more productive via various agglomeration ...
Frédéric Robert-Nicoud, Kristian Behrens   +1 more
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Urban agglomeration and regional economic performance connectedness: Thin ice in developing regions

Research in Globalization
This paper evaluates the evolution of urban agglomeration from 2000 to 2020 in 66 developing and developed economies from Asia, Europe, and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and examines how urban agglomeration changes impinge on economic performance changes. The
Isaiah Maket, Izabella Szakálné Kanó, Zsófia Vas   +2 more
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From Urban Clusters to Megaregions: Mapping Australia's Evolving Urban Regions [PDF]

arXiv
This study employs percolation theory to investigate the hierarchical organisation of Australian urban centres through the connectivity of their road networks. The analysis demonstrates how discrete urban clusters have developed into integrated regional entities, delineating the pivotal distance thresholds that regulate these urban transitions.
arxiv  

Urban Agglomeration and CEO Compensation [PDF]

, 2012
Bill B. Francis, Iftekhar Hasan, Kose John, Maya Waisman   +3 more
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