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â€œRunning Down the Up Escalatorâ€: A Revisionist Perspective on Decentralization and Deconcentration in the United States, 1970-2000

Gottlieb, Paul D. - In: International Regional Science Review 29 (2006) 2, pp. 135-158

This article proposes that decentralization and deconcentration in the United States be measured by tracking the proportion of people or jobs in fixed categories of places across census years, using metropolitan areas designated in each year rather than the fixed-year standard employed in...

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Agglomeration and the Adjustment of the Spatial Economy

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Overman, Henry G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We consider the literatures on urban systems and New Economic Geography to examine questions concerning agglomeration …

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Critical Surveys Edited by STEPHEN ROPER

Cladera, Josep Roca; Bergada, Montserrat Moix - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 3, pp. 357-373

urban systems, Regional Studies 39 , 357-373. There is a long tradition of different approaches relating to the delimitation … of urban systems, such as those pertaining to the delimitation of Statistical Metropolitan Areas and Daily Urban Systems … delimitation of urban systems, drawing upon the interaction value. This approach allows for the identification of hierarchical and …

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Chapter 67. The Historical Geography of European Cities: An Interpretive Essay

Hohenberg, Paul M. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 3021-3052). 2004

Over a millennium Europe has become largely urban. While urban growth, absolute and as a percentage of a growing population, has been as dramatic as economic change, many elements of continuity tie the present to the past. This evolution with path dependence is highlighted if one looks at...

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International urban systems and air passenger and cargo flows: some calculations

Matsumoto, Hidenobu - In: Journal of Air Transport Management 10 (2004) 4, pp. 239-247

This paper examines international urban systems from the standpoint of international air traffic flows and analyzes the …

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Some Evidence for the Convergence of Employment Structures in the British Urban System from 1978 to 1991

O'Donoghue, Dan - In: Regional Studies 34 (2000) 2, pp. 159-167

O'DONOGHUE D. (2000) Some evidence for the convergence of employment structures in the British urban system from 1978 to 1991, Reg. Studies 34 , 159-168. This paper examines a range of empirical evidence regarding the changing employment structures of 150 Job Centre Travel-to-work Areas (JC...

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Economic Development and Loglinearity in the Rank-Size Distribution of Urban Systems

Mirucki, Jean - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1985

The purpose of this paper is to examine, empirically, the dynamics of the soviet urban system in light of the rank-size distribution hypothesis and to extend the analysis initiated by HARRIS on the U.S.S.R. to the Republic of Ukraine. The first part of this paper will present a brief recall of...

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The Spatial Effects of Trade Openness: A Survey

Brülhart, Marius - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …

. Three results stand out. First, neither urban systems models nor new economic geography models imply a robust prediction on …

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