How do urban characteristics affect climate change mitigation policies? [PDF]
, 2017 Urban policy plays an important role in urbanization and urban sprawl, which in turn affect changes in CO2 emissions from urban areas. However, urban planning policies that consider climate change mitigation have not been widely adopted, despite the ...
Kazuyuki Iwata +5 more
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Chinese Trade Competition and Rural Mexican Migration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 reshaped global trade, reducing U.S. demand for Mexican manufactured goods and weakening Mexico's manufacturing employment. This study estimates how this trade‐induced decline affected migration and employment decisions among rural Mexicans.
Zachariah Rutledge, Joaquin Mayorga
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Frontiers in SociologyThe Latin American city is structured by structural social inequality, expressed in an inequitable distribution of people and urban goods across the city.
César Cáceres-Seguel +1 more
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Government, political actors and governance in urban policies in Brazil and São Paulo: concepts for a future research agenda [PDF]
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2013 Public policies are produced by connections between several actors, within institutional environments and crossing organizational boundaries, but detailed analyses of the environments in which politics occur are relatively rare in Brazil.
Eduardo Marques
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What is the Place of Night-time in the Urban Policy of a French Intermediate City?
Articulo: Journal of Urban Research, 2016 Metropolisation is a widespread phenomenon, defined by special mechanisms operating on spaces in cities of all sizes. The process reorganizes not only space but also time, particularly night-time.
Sandra Mallet, Céline Burger
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Theatre Associations in Working Class Neighbourhoods: between Politicisation and Public Action
Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2021 For about thirty years now, in the context of urban policies, number of theater associations carry out projects in working-class neighborhoods providing active participation of their inhabitants.
Quercia Francesca
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Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use: The Case of Transportation Policies [PDF]
We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steady-state equilibrium.
Zenou, Yves
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Assessing the impact of European Union policies on urban transport: a comparative analysis [PDF]
, 2015 The impact EU (European Union) policies have at the local level is little understood and explored, especially in the field of urban transport. Yet the EU has a growing influence in the urban transport sphere. This thesis examines the EU’s impact on urban
Cavoli, CM
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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Bridging Urban Digital Divide: Digital Helpers and the Governance of Smart Cities
Transylvanian Review of Administrative SciencesDigital inequalities shape not only the national and regional contexts, but also the urban and metropolitan landscape, amplifying existing social and spatial divides.
Bogdan Constantin Ibănescu +3 more
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