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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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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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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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Recent sprawl and shrinkage policies deployed in the sphere of urban management in Turkey : the case of Ankara
Gültekin, Ahmet Tanju - 2014
In today's cities of Turkey, central as well as local urban administrations cannot succeed in attaining the power for planning the developmental trends and/or controlling the future along with bringing solutions to socio-cultural and economic problems. The root cause for this issue lies in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493099
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Dynamics of urban sprawl : applying a CA-based model to explore future development scenarios in Thessaloniki
Lagarias, Apostolos - 2013
model calculates combined urbanization potentials on the global and the local level and uses a stochastic process in order …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575769
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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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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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Patterns in US urban growth (1790-2000)
González-Val, Rafael; Lanaspa-Santolaria, Luis Fernando - 2013
This paper reconsiders the evolution of the growth of American cities since 1790 in light of new theories of urban growth. Our null hypothesis for long-term growth is random growth. We obtain evidence supporting random growth against the alternative of mean reversion (convergence) in city sizes...
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A multi-scenario prospection of urban change : the case of urban growth in the Algarve
Vaz, Eric de Noronha; Nijkamp, Peter; Painho, Marco; … - 2010
The Algarve faces unprecedented challenges resulting from increase of urban sprawl and population density along its coastal perimeters. A growing loss of ecosystems and natural landscapes have led to major asymmetries between the interior of the Algarve and the littoral areas. The depletion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581722