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The impact of transport, housing, and urban development interventions on older adults' mobility: A systematic review of experimental and quasi-experimental studies.

open access: yesJ Transp Health
Hérick de Sá T   +12 more
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Urban Development with Lags

Journal of Urban Economics, 1996
Summary: This paper specifies a model of urban development under uncertainty when there is a lag between the decision to begin a project and its completion. These lags have three important effects. First, the deterrent effect of uncertainty on development is smaller with lags than without them.
Bar-Ilan, Avner, Strange, William C.
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Urbanization and economic development. [PDF]

open access: possibleEastern economic journal, 1984
"This paper seeks to contribute to the discussion on the relationship between the levels of urbanization, levels of economic development and the pattern of economic activities." The focus is on the situation in developing countries, and the data are from published World Bank sources.
Prem S. Laumas, Martin Williams
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Urban unemployment and urban development

Economics Letters, 1984
Abstract A dynamic model of a dual economy has been developed with specialization in production in the urban and the rural sector and with the Harris-Todaro migration mechanism. It appears that there is no conflict between a programme of urban development and the solution to the urban unemployment problem.
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Urbanization and Economic Development

2019
This essay uses Robert Park’s The City as an inspiration for a comparison of urban America around 1915 with urban China a hundred years later. The focus is not so much on the social fabric of the city but rather on a comparison of the process of urbanization in relation to economic development in the US and China in their respective historical contexts.
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