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Infrastructure's long-lived impact on urban development : theory and empirics
Grimes, Arthur L.; Apatov, Eyal; Lutchmann, Larissa; … - 2014
We analyse the impacts that infrastructure provision has on long run urban development. The topic is of major importance to policy-makers when deciding whether or not to invest in major infrastructure projects. The analysis helps policy-makers to understand the intended, and potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011503535
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Urbanization and economic development in Russia
Kolomak, Evgenija A. - 2012
The paper studies trends in the urbanization in Russia and compares them with the global ones. Russia has high level of … urbanization, urban population reached 73% in 1990, and the rate of urbanization fluctuates around this level past 20 years. The …, 1999, and 2004. The paper discusses advantages and disadvantages of the urbanization to the economic development and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522573
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"Urbanization and decentralization : the changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services" : paper for 54th European regional Science Association Con...
Braun, Joachim von - 2014
"Urbanization and Decentralization: The changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services … urbanization and decentralization. Ever stronger linkages between urban and rural areas represent a challenge for sustainable … reviews the evidence of synergies and pitfalls between urbanization and decentralization with concepts of economic geography …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492002
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Approaching integrated urban-rural development in China : the changing institutional roles
Li, Yuheng; Hu, Zhichao; Liu, Yansui - 2014 - (Incomplete manuscript for 2014 ERSA conference)
Ever since the twenty-first century, the Chinese government has been undertaking a series of rural-favored policies and measures to promote comprehensive development in rural China. The fundamental purpose is to accomplish integrated urban-rural development (IURD) given the ever enlarging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495658
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Malthus living in a slum : urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - 2014 - (Preliminary version)
Today more than half of the 7 billion inhabitants of the planet live in urban areas, with this share expected to keep rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is now characterised by a really fast pace and a high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490043
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Urbanization processes along the Mediterranean coast of Alicante province.
Martí Ciriquián, Pablo; Nolasco Ciriquián, Almudena - 2011
The rate of land consumption in the coastal area of Alicante has been over the last decades, one of the highest among all Spanish Mediterranean provinces. This new territorial tendency has involved important changes in the use of land and has led to a new spatial and functional reality. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539304
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Urban transformation as a tool for disaster mitigation
Türkoğlu, Handan; Kundak, Seda - 2011
Urban transformation projects are prepared with the purpose to sanitize decayed areas, to make cities beautiful and to create economic vitality. Since natural hazards threaten large metropolitan areas, urban transformation is pronounced together to mitigate disasters. This approach of urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548236
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"A solution to urban sprawl : management of urban regeneration by smart growth"
Serdaroğlu Sag, Neslihan; Karaman, Aykut - 2014
Uncontrolled and sprawling growth in physical space is one of the primary problems of metropolitan cities. Urban sprawl, which can be defined as the rapid peripheral growth of cities, is criticized in terms of leading problems such as occupying cultivated areas and environment, removing away...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487781
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Implications of the 2000 watt society for urban planning and economics
Lienhard, Melanie - 2014
Based on the increasing popularity and dispersal of the concept of the 2000 watt society the paper analyses what defines the concept and what kind of implications it has including the challenges in regards to urban planning and economics. The literature analysis has shown that a sufficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504400
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Territorial consumption models : urban sprawl - (un)sustainability : time for anti sprawl?
Váradi, Zsuzsanna; Kovács, Szilvia - 2011
The presentation deals with a current urbanization phenomenon in Hungary, and highlights the cause-effect relationship … of urbanization from interdisciplinary aspect and underlines the weakspots of sustainable urban development. After the … new urbanization trends, especially the suburbanization processes. The spreading of the urban areas and agglomerations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528859