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Territorial Cohesion: An EU concept

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2016
This article addresses the concept of Territorial Cohesion, which has been gaining increasing interest within academia and the EU policy circles. In particular, this article examines its relevance and main dimensions, and also suggests a comprehensive ...
Eduardo Medeiros
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ESPON in context

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2006
The continuing inability of the academic community to come up with a usable theoretical understanding of globalisation and the lack of corresponding statistical evidence, which is its result, encourages ideological speculation.
Christer Bengs
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The ghost of Patrick Geddes:civics as applied sociology [PDF]

, 2005
In 1904 and 1905 Patrick Geddes (1905, 1906) read his famed, but today little-read, two-part paper, 'Civics: as Applied Sociology', to the first meetings of the British Sociological Society. Geddes is often thought of as a 'pioneer of sociology' (Mairet,
Law, Alex
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A transport network for a City network in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region: linking the performance of the public transport service with the perspectives of a monocentric or a polycentric urban system

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2006
The objective of this contribution is to establish a method linking the performance of the regional rail transport network and two principles of territorial organisation around a central pole (monocentric option) or in a city network (polycentric option)
Alain L'Hostis, Hervé Baptiste
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Urban Violence Is not (Necessarily) a Way of Life [PDF]

As the world moves towards its so-called urban ‘tipping point’, urbanization in the global South has increasingly come to be portrayed as the portent of a dystopian future characterized by ever-mounting levels of anarchy and brutality.
Rodgers, Dennis
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Spatial County Planning as a Regional Legitimating Process

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2004
In Norway’s new regional policy setup the 19 county municipalities have been given a key role as regional planning and development actors. This is not however a completely new role for the counties, though their role has undoubtedly been strengthened ...
Roar Amdam
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Re-structuring Competitive Metropolitan Regions in North-west Europe: On Territory and Governance

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2003
This paper intends to build a bridge between academic debates on the contemporary rescaling of political economy, with regard to urban governance, and the strategic approaches produced by policy makers and planners with a view to establishing region ...
Wolfgang Knapp, Peter Schmitt
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Reflections on Philippine Sociology in the 1990s [PDF]

This paper shares initial reflections on Philippine sociology in the 1990s. It takes off from previous assessments of the state of the social sciences as well as from observations regarding the current involvement of Filipino sociologists and the ...
Bautista, Maria Cynthia Rose
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Vegetation cover fraction and the residential distribution of child-rearing households in urban Tokyo and Osaka: An ecological cross-sectional analysis. [PDF]

PLoS One
Otani M, Matsushita D.
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Neighborhood Satisfaction in Modern and Old Neighborhoods in Ýstanbul [PDF]

There is growing interest among academics and policy makers in both Turkey and abroad to monitor social progress. As a result of this, much activity is focused on measuring quality of neighborhood life, via the development and implementation of ...
Emine Ümran Topçu
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