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Urban Structure and Growth [PDF]

open access: yesReview 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
openaire   +5 more sources

Urban growth sustainability of Islamabad, Pakistan, over the last 3 decades: a perspective based on object-based backdating change detection

open access: yesGeoJournal, 2020
Urban growth copes with problems in sustainable development. In developing countries, particularly, sustainable development of urban growth copes with severe challenges with respect to sluggish economic and social growth, population boom, environmental ...
Yong Liu, Shaker Ul Din, Yuejin Jiang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

(De-)activating the growth machine for redevelopment: the case of Liede urban village in Guangzhou [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Modelos teóricos de interpretación de la cuidad informal, aplicados a la producción urbana en América Latina = Theoretical models of interpretation to informal city, applied to urban growth in Latin America

open access: yesTerritorios 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
doaj   +1 more source

The role of social dimensions on the urban sustainability (Study on the form and social structure integration in the peri-urban areas in Sulaimanyiah city)

open access: yesSulaimani 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
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of R Tools for Downloading MODIS Images and Their Use in Urban Growth Analysis of the City of Tarija (Bolivia)

open access: yesRemote 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
doaj   +1 more source

Land-Use/Land-Cover Change Analysis and Urban Growth Modelling in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana

open access: yesUrban Science, 2019
A rapid increase in the world’s population over the last century has triggered the transformation of the earth surface, especially in urban areas, where more than half of the global population live. Ghana is no exception and a high population growth rate,
Bright Addae, N. Oppelt
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impacts of Triple Factors on Flash Flood Vulnerability in Egypt: Urban Growth, Extreme Climate, and Mismanagement

open access: yes, 2020
Urban growth, extreme climate, and mismanagement are crucial controlling factors that affect flood vulnerability at wadi catchments. Therefore, this study attempts to understand the impacts of these three factors on the flash flood vulnerability in ...
M. Saber   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Urbanization and growth [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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
openaire   +3 more sources

Changing Characteristics of a Significant Part of the Urban Fringe in Ankara: İmrahor Valley [PDF]

open access: yesAnkara 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
doaj   +1 more source

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