Educator's Guide for Mission to Earth: LANDSAT Views the World [PDF]
This teacher's guide is specifically designed to provide information and suggestions for using LANDSAT imagery to teach basic concepts in several content areas.
Tindal, M. A.
core +1 more source
Testing the NEG model: further evidence from panel data [PDF]
, 2008 Local wage variations in the UK are explained by two non-nested rival hypotheses. The first derives from new economic geography theory, in which wages depend on market potential.
Fingleton, Bernard
core
The Study the Necessity of New Towns Creation in Iranian Urban System [PDF]
نشریه جغرافیا و برنامهریزی, 2012 In different countries, new towns are constructed based on necessity and their functions. Nowadays, making new towns is not of course performed with the aim of realizing the notion of ideal habitation or Utopia, rather decentralization of large cities is
Karim Hosainzadeh Dalir +2 more
doaj
Urban primacy, gigantism, and international trade: Evidence from Asia and the Americas [PDF]
Gustavsson [1999] finds that policies that promote international trade increase the size of a country’s largest city relative to the country’s total population, which is defined here as an increase in urban gigantism. In contrast, Ades and Glaeser [1995]
Alwosabi, Mohammed A., Moomaw, Ronald L.
core
AGGLOMERATION AND THE ADJUSTMENT OF THE SPATIAL ECONOMY [PDF]
We consider the literatures on urban systems and New Economic Geography to examine questions concerning agglomeration and how areas respond to shocks to the economic environment. We first propose a diagrammatic framework to compare the two approaches. We
GillesDuranton +2 more
core +3 more sources
Analysis of Spatial Distribution of Public Libraries in the City of Yazd [PDF]
نشریه جغرافیا و برنامهریزی, 2015 Library is a very significant center for transferring information and it has an important role in improving peoples’ knowledge and awareness. However, due to some external and internal factor some libraries have a lot of applicants while some have few ...
najma Esmaeelpour +2 more
doaj
A Core-Periphery Model of Urban Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence using Chinese City-Level Data, 1990-2006 [PDF]
The core-periphery (CP) model of urban systems lacks evidence from real data for the nonlinear relationship between distance to core and market potential. China remains in the process of industrialization and globalization, thereby making it suitable for
Ming Lu, Zhao Chen, Zheng Xu
core
Geography of Homelessness, Part 4: Examining Urban Homelessness [PDF]
, 2009 While homelessness exists in all places, a majority of people experiencing homelessness are experiencing it in urban areas. Approximately 77 percent of the U.S.
core
Power, discourse and city trajectories [PDF]
, 2001 Examines social theory and contemporary human geography in the context of urban development. Covers theoretical debates in political ecology, the cultural turn in the economy, social relations and scale, space and place, and colonialism and post ...
Boyle, Mark, Rogerson, Robert J.
core
The Study of Efficiency of Street Networks in Earthquake (Case Study of Zones 1 and 5 of Tabriz Detailed Pland) [PDF]
نشریه جغرافیا و برنامهریزی, 2015 Large earthquakes usually cause huge damages to human life. Street network vulnerability makes the rescue operation to encounter serious difficulties especially at the first 72 hours after the incident. Today, physical expansion and high density of great
Karim Hosseinzade Delir +1 more
doaj