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"A solution to urban sprawl : management of urban regeneration by smart growth"
Serdaroğlu Sag, Neslihan; Karaman, Aykut - 2014
Uncontrolled and sprawling growth in physical space is one of the primary problems of metropolitan cities. Urban sprawl, which can be defined as the rapid peripheral growth of cities, is criticized in terms of leading problems such as occupying cultivated areas and environment, removing away...
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Creative Destruction : Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872
Hornbeck, Richard; Keniston, Daniel - 2021
Historical city growth, in the United States and worldwide, has required remarkable transformation of outdated durable buildings. Private land-use decisions may generate inefficiencies, however, due to externalities and various rigidities. This paper analyzes new plot-level data in the aftermath...
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Anpassung städtischer Infrastrukturen im Stadtumbau unter Wachstums- und Schrumpfungsbedingungen
Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung - 2020 - Stand: Dezember 2019
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Creative Destruction : Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872
Hornbeck, Richard - 2014
Historical city growth, in the United States and worldwide, has required remarkable transformation of outdated durable buildings. Private land-use decisions may generate inefficiencies, however, due to externalities and various rigidities. This paper analyzes new plot-level data in the aftermath...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458201
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Revisiting the spatial cycle : intra-regional development patterns and future population dynamics in metropolitan Athens, Greece
Rontos, Kostas; Antonoglou, Dimitrios; Salvati, Luca; … - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 8, pp. 1-14
Being intertwined with economic development, urbanization determines the present and future development path of regions and countries. The intimate relationship between urban expansion and economic development is of particular interest in the case of large regions with complex (and mostly...
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Granular cities
Esquierro, Leon; Silva, Sergio da - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 7, pp. 1-34
This study extends the concept of granularity from firms to cities, examining how large cities influence national economic dynamics beyond their relative size. By applying Zipf's law, which describes the power law distribution of city sizes, we investigate the interplay between granularity and...
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Boom town business dynamics
Decker, Ryan A.; McCollum, Meagan N.; Upton, Gregory B. … - 2020
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Economic downturns, urban growth and suburban fertility in a Mediterranean context
Nickayin, Samaneh Sadat; Chelli, Francesco; Turco, Rosario - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 10, pp. 1-26
Despite the wealth of micro-macro data on short-term demographic dynamics, the impact of metropolitan growth and economic downturns on local fertility is still under-investigated in advanced economies. Recent studies in low-fertility contexts have assumed suburban birth rates as being...
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Tokyo's greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme: A model for sustainable megacity carbon markets?
Rudolph, Sven; Kawakatsu, Takeshi - 2012
, where global climate negotiations are deadlocked. Tokyo, the world's biggest metropolis and emitter of greenhouse gases … available. Hence, the paper answers the question to what extend Tokyo's new carbon market can be considered a worthwhile model …-to-date sustainability economics reasoning, the paper evaluates the design and the recent results of Tokyo's carbon market, showing that …
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Abnormal accrual, informed trader, and long-term stock return : evidence from Japan
Muramiya, Katsuhiko; Otogawa, Kazuhisa; Takada, Tomomi - 2008
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