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Cities for All: Recent Experiences with Neighborhood Upgrading Programs Title: Ciudades para todos: La experiencia reciente en programas de mejoramiento de barrios
Brakarz, José; Rojas, Eduardo; Greene, Margarita - Inter-American Development Bank
Cities for All examines informal urbanization in Latin America as well as the methodologies being used to design and …
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Cities for All: Recent Experiences with Neighborhood Upgrading Programs Title: Ciudades para todos: La experiencia reciente en programas de mejoramiento de barrios
Brakarz, José; Rojas, Eduardo; Greene, Margarita - Inter-American Development Bank
Cities for All examines informal urbanization in Latin America as well as the methodologies being used to design and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772395
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Informational Interactions and the Future of Cities
GUILLAIN, Rachel; HURIOT, Jean-Marie - Laboratoire d'Économie de Dijon (LEDI), Université de … - 1998
Present-day city growth is chiefly the result of new tertiary activities such as financial and producer services, R&D, or business administration. It seems that these activities need to be more spatially concentrated than traditional manufacturing activities. These new trends affect both the...
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The Impact of Urban Growth Boundaries on Future Urbanization
Ryan, Christine; Wilson, John; Fulton, William - Lusk Center for Real Estate, Marshall School of Business - 2003
encouraged rapid population growth and urbanization of land. The five counties of Southern California – Los Angeles, Orange …
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Incorporating Spatial Complexity into Economic Models of Land Markets and Land Use Change
Chen, Yong; Irwin, Elena G.; Jayaprakash, Ciriyam - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 40 (2011) 3
Recent work in regional science, geography, and urban economics has advanced spatial modeling of land markets and land use by incorporating greater spatial complexity, including multiple sources of spatial heterogeneity, multiple spatial scales, and spatial dynamics. Doing so has required a move...
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Globalization and Exclusionary Urban rowth in Asian Countries
Kundu; Amitabh; Kundu; Debolina - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
urbanization, and speculates on its impact on the quality of life and poverty in the context of Asian countries. After experiencing … deceleration. This questions the postulate of the epicentre of urbanization shifting to Asia. It also lends credence to the thesis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500389
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Unacknowledged Urbanisation: The New Census Towns of India
Pradhan, Kanhu Charan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The unexpected increase in the number of census towns (CTs) in the last census has thrust them into the spotlight. Using a hitherto unexploited dataset, it is found that many of the new CTs satisfied the requisite criteria in 2001 itself; mitigating concerns of inflated urbanisation. The new CTs...
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Enjeux économiques, sociaux et environnementaux de l'urbanisation du monde
Véron, Jacques - In: Mondes en développement n° 142 (2008) 2, pp. 39-52
As the world population grows increasingly urbanized, the nexus of population, urbanization and development is growing …
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Impact of Economic Globalization on Urbanization
Narayana, M.R. - In: India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs 66 (2010) 1, pp. 91-116
This article analyzes the impact of economic globalization on urbanization since July 1991, with special reference to … and capital, is shown to be low at global levels. Patterns of urbanization in the post-globalization period show higher … compare the growth-cum-equity implications of globalization on urbanization between India and other countries. This is …
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Description and analysis of the consequences of the housing Boom in Asturias using Geographical Information Systems, 1996-2006
Rubiera Morollón, Fernando; González Marroquín, … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2013) 27, pp. 115-140
The period between 2000 and 2007 was a period in which Spain was growing in a bubble around the construction sector driven by the boom in real estate and the high growth rate of public infrastructures. The macroeconomic consequences of this unbalanced growth of the construction are well known...
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