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Urban Structure and Growth [PDF]
Review of Economic Studies, 2003 Most economic activity occurs in cities. This creates a tension between local increasing returns, implied by the existence of cities, and aggregate constant returns, implied by balanced growth. To address this tension, we develop a general equilibrium theory of economic growth in an urban environment.
Mark Wright, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
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(De-)activating the growth machine for redevelopment: the case of Liede urban village in Guangzhou [PDF]
, 2017 This research investigates the mechanism of urban village redevelopment in south China. Through a revised typology of place entrepreneurs based on the growth machine thesis and a case study of Liede village in central Guangzhou, it illustrates how land ...
Guo, Youliang +3 more
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Sulaimani Journal for Engineering Sciences, 2017 Urban development and urban expansion, usually followed by transformations of cities and their surroundings (rural, urban or both). Communities , which have been lived in environments different from those experienced today, became living in hybrid ...
Dr. Hoshyar Qadir Rasul +1 more
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Remote Sensing, 2022 The aim of this study was to compare the available tools in R for downloading and processing Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data, specifically the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) product.
Milton J. Campero-Taboada +4 more
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Changing Characteristics of a Significant Part of the Urban Fringe in Ankara: İmrahor Valley [PDF]
Ankara Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2019 İmrahor Valley, which covers a significant part of the urban fringe in Ankara, has a crucial role in conserving the ecological balance of city with its landscape and other natural features.
Fulya Sınacı Özfındık
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Driving Forces behind Land Use and Land Cover Change: A Systematic and Bibliometric Review
Land, 2022 This paper is based on reviewing the literature in the past 10 years on the drivers of land use and land cover change (LULCC) in urban areas. It combines quantitative and qualitative keyword analysis of papers drawn out from the Scopus database.
Andrew Allan +3 more
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, 2009 Urban growth machine is an influential thesis of urban politics that suggests the objective of growth unites otherwise pluralistic interests in relation to a city. The thesis is situated within a broader theory about the commodification of place, where place is understood to be socially and economically valued land.
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Journal of Urban Economics, 2004 In a simple urban economics framework, we aim at highlighting how the trade-off between optimal and equilibrium city size behaves when introducing dynamic human capital externalities beside the classical congestion externalities. Our purpose is to show that there are dynamic gains from oversized cities.
BERTINELLI, Luisito, BLACK, Duncan
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How did the population in the Copenhagen region change, 1960-2002?
Dela, 2004 oncentrates first of all on the analysis of spatial differences in the sixty-year development of the population within the concentric zones: city centre, flanking region, old and new suburban circle and dispersed settlements.
Sven Illeris
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Analyzing the Spatiotemporal Uncertainty in Urbanization Predictions
Remote Sensing, 2021 With the availability of computational resources, geographical information systems, and remote sensing data, urban growth modeling has become a viable tool for predicting urbanization of cities and towns, regions, and nations around the world.
Jairo Alejandro Gómez +6 more
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