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Journal of Urban Economics, 2019 Abstract Does a location’s growth benefit or suffer from being geographically close to large economic centers? Spatial proximity may lead to competition and hurt growth, but it may also improve market access and enhance growth. Using data on U.S. counties and metro areas for the period 1840–2017, we document this tradeoff between urban shadows and ...
Cuberes, David +2 more
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Municipal Property Acquisition Patterns in a Shrinking City: Evidence for the Persistence of an Urban Growth Paradigm in Buffalo, NY [PDF]
, 2015 The purpose of this article is to examine municipal property acquisition patterns in shrinking cities. We use data from the City of Buffalo’s municipal property auction records to analyze the spatial distribution of properties offered for sale in its ...
Patterson, Kelly L +2 more
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Hydrology, 2017 The growth and spread of impervious surfaces within urbanizing catchment areas pose signiificant threats to the quality of natural and built-up environments.
Hasan Mohammed Hameed
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Dynamics of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Harare, Zimbabwe: A Case Study on the Linkage between Drivers and the Axis of Urban Expansion [PDF]
, 2019 With increasing population growth, the Harare Metropolitan Province has experienced accelerated land use and land cover (LULC) changes, influencing the city’s growth.
Marondedze, Andrew K. +1 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2019 As cities are major contributors to GHG emissions and places where people face multiple climate change impacts, their critical role in responding to climate change is becoming increasingly evident. Cities are developing climate change action plans (CCAPs)
Hyejung Kim, Stelios Grafakos
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Remote Sensing, 2016 This study analyses the expansion of urban growth and land cover changes in five Saudi Arabian cities (Riyadh, Jeddah, Makkah, Al-Taif and the Eastern Area) using Landsat images for the 1985, 1990, 2000, 2007 and 2014 time periods. The classification was
Abdullah F. Alqurashi +2 more
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Physical Capacity Assessment of Cities Central Textures in order to Infill Development (Case Study: Minab City) [PDF]
جغرافیای اجتماعی شهری, 2016 When the physical sprawl occurs in a biological range, as an excess of physical needs of the resident’s population, it would occupy space or exceed the suburbs. It can be concluded that within the city useless, derelict, deficient, and old spaces will be
Karamatollah Ziari +3 more
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Urban expansion: theory, evidence and practice
Buildings & Cities, 2023 Cities accommodate population growth both through the densification of their existing footprints and through their expansion into their rural peripheries. In recent decades, most population growth has been accommodated through urban expansion.
Shlomo Angel
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, 1997 This paper models and examines empirically the evolution of cities in an economy. Twentieth century evolution in the USA is characterized by parallel growth of cities of different types and on-going entry of new cities, together maintaining a stable relative size distribution of cities. Each type of city has a particular industrial composition and good(
Duncan Black, Vernon Henderson
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Territorios en Formación, 2022 Resumen El desarrollo urbano informal ha configurado amplias extensiones de territorio como áreas urbanas consolidadas de las principales ciudades de América Latina.
Julián Ruiz Solano
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