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The role of geo-economic space elements in the development of national economic interests

Semenova, Inna; Lachininskii, Stanislav - 2014

Direct investments, cooperation links, information flows, global infrastructure, as well as agglomeration effect, fill up the space with geo-economic content. In this paper, a classification of the main territorial elements of globalized geo-economic space (GGS) was done. In that way, we...

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Renderings: Bildwelten zur Legitimation von spekulativen Stadtentwicklungsprojekten in Lagos und New York

Mélix, Sophie - In: sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 10 (2022) 1, pp. 97-126

Renderings tragen im Kontext des spekulativen Urbanismus wesentlich zur Legitimation von Stadtentwicklungsprojekten bei. Der Beitrag erläutert, wie mithilfe dieser Form der digitalen Architekturvisualisierung umfassende Bildwelten innerhalb der jeweiligen Planungsprozesse entstehen und wie sie...

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Competitiveness, migration, and mobility in the global city: Insights from Sydney, Australia

Hu, Richard - In: Economies 3 (2015) 1, pp. 37-54

The global city thesis and the migration thesis concern two important dimensions of the impacts of contemporary globalization on cities. The two theses are intrinsically linked. The central question is how we should approach migration in the new context of the global city, and how we should...

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The concept of fuzzy central place as the approach to compare distribution of central functions within urban agglomerations

Em, Pavel - 2014

The conception of fuzzy central places (FCP), proposed by P. Em, made possible the understanding of the central functions' (CF) heterogenic distribution inside the urban agglomerations. The FCP is a bounded region of a set of points with CF. The correlation analysis proved a strong relation...

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Different roles of municipalities in a urban agglomeration: a regional agent-based economic model

Baruffini, Moreno; Mini, Valentina; Stricker, Luzius - 2015

Historically Switzerland is characterized by numerous small towns. During the twentieth century, the image of Swiss cities has changed: the expansion of the city has reached the limits of administrative urban borders, penetrating in peripheral locations. The main reasons concern not only the...

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Spatial price discrimination with online competition

Guo, Jin; Xu, Yingzhi - 2016

Benefit from the advantage of externalities, urban agglomerations are playing more and more important roles in regional economic development. However, present literature failed to distinguish the differences between urban agglomerations' pecuniary externality and technology externality. In this...

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Aglomerações urbanas no Brasil e na América do sul: Trajetórias e novas configurações

Moura, Rosa; Pêgo Filho, Bolívar - 2016

The Urban Network and Territory research, developing in the Directory of Studies and Regional, Urban and Environmental Policies (Dirur) of the Ipea, comes following the activities focused on dynamic analysis, characterization and prospect about the urban agglomerations and the urban-regional...

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Was Singapore extraordinary? A comparative view of Singapore's saving performance 1965-99

Hopf, Gregor - 2009

Singapore's sustained high saving performance was far from extraordinary once the country's particular circumstances are … econometrically controlled for. Singapore's saving performance should therefore not be regarded as a mere blip in economic history. As … extraordinary. Singapore was able to overcome its low initial saving performance much faster and much more strongly than could have …

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Envisioning the future, conceptualising public space: Hanoi and Singapore negotiating spaces for negotiation

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina; Kurfürst, Sandra - 2010

Vietnam the vision of a 'socialist-oriented market economy', in Singapore of a 'knowledge society' is pursued. This paper … transformed into concrete public space through citizens' negotiation. In Singapore's libraries, the aim to foster knowledge …

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When one country's land gain is another country's land loss...: The social, ecological and economic dimensions of sand extraction in the context of world-systems analysis exemplifi...

Franke, Maria - 2014

Singapore industrialised rapidly with continuously high growth rates since its independence in 1965 and its population … during the same period of time almost tripled. With development at this scale, Singapore had to grow in number of industrial …, Cambodia and Vietnam) for its sand supply. All major sand supplying countries successively prohibited sand exports to Singapore …

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