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Patterns in US Urban Growth (1790?2000)
GONZALEZ-VAL, RAFAEL; LANASPA, LUIS - European Regional Science Association - 2013
This paper reconsiders the evolution of the growth of American cities since 1790 in light of new theories of urban growth. Our null hypothesis for long-term growth is random growth. We obtain evidence supporting random growth against the alternative of mean reversion (convergence) in city sizes...
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How does elderly migration affect urban growth and city-size distribution in the French Riviera?
Dimou, Michel; Schaffar, Alexandra - European Regional Science Association - 2014
The main objective of this paper is to understand the effects of regional migration of households over city-size distribution, urban growth and real estate prices. The paper aims to study regional migration of elderly households, mainly those over 50, in France during the last 20 years, by...
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Research of pendular migration in the St. Petersburg?s agglomeration
Petrovich, Mikhail; Losin, Leonid; Istomina, Lyudmila; … - European Regional Science Association - 2014
traffic and the vehicles streams on the border of the agglomeration core. The registration results can be also used while …. The authors of the present article used the materials of the passenger traffic research on the different means of … traffic on all entrances to the Petersburg's agglomeration core during three hours in the morning period of the working day …
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THE IMPACTS OF LOCAL DEMANDS, URBANIZATION AND AMAZONIAN METROPOLITAN REGIONS OVER DEFORESTATION ON BRAZILIAN AMAZON
Castelani, Sergio; Guilhoto, Joaquim; Igliori, Danilo - European Regional Science Association - 2013
. As the Brazilian Amazon contains 5 big Metropolitan Regions, and in order to take into account this referred urbanization … urbanization process taking place within Brazilian Amazon play an important role in terms of the deforestation it might cause. …
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Winning the Oil Lottery: The Impact of Natural Resource Extraction on Growth
Cavalcanti, Tiago; Mata, Daniel Da; Toscani, Frederik - European Regional Science Association - 2014
sectors of the economy. Services GDP per capita is estimated to increase by roughly 20% and urbanization by over 4% points. We …
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Approaching integrated urban-rural development in China: The changing institutional roles
Li, Yuheng; Hu, Zhichao; Liu, Yansui - European Regional Science Association - 2014
Ever since the twenty-first century, the Chinese government has been undertaking a series of rural-favored policies and measures to promote comprehensive development in rural China. The fundamental purpose is to accomplish integrated urban-rural development (IURD) given the ever enlarging...
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MEGACITIES AND COUNTRIES: URBANIZATION AND REAL CONVERGENCE
Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - European Regional Science Association - 2014
ABSTRACT. A new urban revolution begun in the second half of the XX century and it is going to challenge the relation between the size and economic role of cities: on one side, the last decades have witnessed the emergence and the never seen growth of a number of Mega-cities, with more than 9...
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Geography in Motion: World Development Report 2009 (excerpt)
World Bank - In: Transnational Corporations Review 1 (2009) 3, pp. 40-46
This study from the World Bank calls for a rebalancing of policy discussions and shows how to use the three dimensions of density, distance, and division to tailor policy instruments to address integration challenges ranging from the relatively straightforward to the very complex.
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Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia : Issues in Urban and Municipal Development
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2006
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