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Communities urbanize when the net benefits to urbanization exceed rural areas. Body mass, height, and weight are …
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This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in … important individual characteristics. The results suggest that urbanization lowers SWB, with relatively large negative effects …
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chauvinism and restrictive migration or anti-urbanization policies and practices. Drawing primarily on examples from Johannesburg … ; urbanization ; African cities ; social cohesion ; integration ; cosmopolitanism …
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This study introduces the urbanicity index of employment. Unlike traditional measures of urbanization (e ….g., urbanization rate), the urbanicity index is distance-based and accounts for the scale aspect as well as the concentration aspect of … urbanization. The concentration aspect can be decomposed into the intersectoral mobility of employment and the spatial mobility of …
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It is obvious that holding city population constant, differences in cities across the world are enormous. Urban giants in poor countries are not large using measures such as land area, interior space or value of output. These differences are easily reconciled mathematically as population is the...
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