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Much of the inequality literature has done a great deal of work to study national inequality. However, most people live in cities and their experience of inequality is shaped by their local and metropolitan environment. This fact implies that next to inequality in countries, local inequality is...
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A recent series of EU initiatives gradually have changed the meaning of growth initiatives whereby the options of economic policy became more closely linked to the needs of development at ever smaller territorial units. The present research attempts to contribute to the discussion about the...
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This paper aims at develop an evaluation of the functional polycentrism of Portuguese municipalities. For that purpose …, we develop a critical assessment of the concept of polycentrism and functional polycentrism whose assumptions guide most …
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Polycentrism is becoming one of the dominant structures in contemporary metropolises. Concentrated decentralization and …
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Much of the inequality literature has done a great deal of work to study national inequality. However, most people live in cities and their experience of inequality is shaped by their local and metropolitan environment. This fact implies that next to inequality in countries, local inequality is...
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characterized sub-centres on the urban spatial structure is studied by analyzing the evolution of polycentrism level and their …
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Nowadays, the urban structure of the metropolitan areas has led to a polynucleated structure, breaking with the paradigm of the monocentric city. The specialized literature has studied this polynucleated structure by identifying the centers that are within of these urban areas. According to this...
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There is no clear dividing line between polycentrism and dispersion in the spatial structure of cities. One of the … methods used to assess the level of polycentrism in comparison with the dispersion of employment in an urban region has been … polycentrism, while if the opposite is true, it tends towards dispersion. The aim of this study is to consider polycentrism …
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