The article examines the capacity of four medium-sized cities in Southern Europe, concerning the current situation of … investments supporting through this way cities development and firms competitiveness. The analysis uses primary data from 310 … the studied cities, but also for similar cities in the wider zone of Southern Europe. …

mystery of what exactly raises productivity in large cities continues. Going back to the famous pin factory of Adam Smith, the … cities. We question to what extent city size limits the division of tasks in Germany. Furthermore, we analyse whether the … by local demand as in Baumgardner (1988). Density lowers coordination costs. Thus, workers in large cities with low …

places of cities. This paper is aimed to analyse how fear of crime is influenced by a variety of factors including actual … order to create safer and livable cities. Note: The alternative choice was to put this abstract under : ZW-SS 'Turkish cases …