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Theoretical analysis of urban land use change by information provision for Nankai Trough Huge Earthquake in Japan

Miyata, Yuzuru; Shibusawa, Hiroyuki; Mizuno, Kentaro - 2015

This study employs an analytic urban economics approach, assuming that Toyohashi City takes a linear shape and there are two districts where the vulnerabilities to the earthquake in the two districts are different. That is, Toyohashi City is divided into two districts, one is safe for the...

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Market structure and sustainable use of natural resources

Yegorov, Yuri - 2015

Sustainable use of natural resources becomes an important issue today not only due to global warming and pollution issues but also because of critical pressure on the Earth's regeneration possibility. We cannot use classical microeconomic approach here for two reasons: a) impossibility to create...

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Chicken or egg? : transport and urban development in Berlin

Möller, Torsten Kristoffer; Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; … - 2013

Infrastructure and especially mass transit play a major role in urban economics and are the centre of many research questions. Probably due to simultaneous determination of infrastructure supply and demand most research is only carried out on the supply side driven relationship explaining how...

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Socio-economic explanation of urban sprawl : evidence from Switzerland, 1970-2000 : paper to be presented at the 54th ERSA Congress, St.Petersburg, 26-29 August. Workshop: G_C Urba...

Weilenmann, Barbara; Schulz, Tobias - 2014

The term urban sprawl is often used to describe apparent inefficiencies of spatial development, including disproportionate growth of urban areas and excessive leapfrog development. In Switzerland, where open space is a scare resource, sprawl takes place all over the country. It goes at the...

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Agricultural preservation, large-lot zoning, and real estate development in New Jersey, USA : presented at the annual meetings of the European Regional Science Association, Palermo...

Gottlieb, Paul D. - 2013

In municipalities on the urban fringe in the United States, large-lot zoning is commonly thought of as a rural preservation tool. It could preserve rural landscapes by making residential lots too expensive for most homebuyers; or it could simply lead to estates that resemble farms or retain...

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On the spatial scale of industrial agglomerations

Mori, Tomoya; Smith, Tony E. - 2015

Standard approaches to studying industrial agglomeration have been in terms of scalar measures of agglomeration within … each industry. But such measures often fail to distinguish spatial scales of agglomeration. In a previous paper, Mori and … agglomeration based on an explicit method for detecting spatial clusters. The first, designated as the global extent of industrial …

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The optimal subsidy on electric vehicles in a metropolitan area : a SCGE study for Germany

Hirte, Georg; Tscharaktschiew, Stefan - 2012

Many governments subsidize electric mobility (E-mobility) to increase the share of electric vehicles (EV) in the car fleet. This aims at reducing carbon emissions. Despite that there is not much research on the full economic costs and benefits of this measures. There are only a few Cost Benefit...

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

Baruffini, Moreno; Stricker, Luzius; Mini, Valentina - 2015 - Version: August 13, 2015

urban systems, considering the agglomeration mechanism and effects of different regional and urban policies. Urban … patterns, which are influenced by residential and industrial agglomeration forces and policy interventions. The results … institutional agglomeration (or city). From a methodological point of view, we contribute to improve the application of territorial …

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Computing functional urban areas using a hierarchical travel time approach : an applied case to Ecuador

Moisés, Obaco A.; Royuela, Vicente; Xavier, Vítores - 2016 - Last Version: July/2016

We present a new approach to shape functional urban areas in terms of proximity. It uses travel time from urban cores to connect them and to determine its hinterland. It only needs information that nowadays it is available for most countries. In addition, we test this approach to a developing...

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"Does employment density death? : towards a new integrated methodology to identify and characterize sub-centres" : ERSA, Regions in motion : breaking the path : 52nd European Congr...

Jaume, Masip Tresserra - 2012

In last decades, the spatial structure of the metropolitan areas has been characterized by an urban dynamics towards a more polynucleated structure, breaking with the paradigm of the monocentric city. The specialized literature has studied these polynucleated urban structures by identifying the...

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