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specifications and introducing different measures for agglomeration at country level, especially urbanization and urban concentration …
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The paper is devoted to problems of ensuring balanced and sustainable development of a very specific and important metropolitan region of the Russian Federation - the region of St Petersburg and surrounding it Leningrad Oblast. St.Petersburg (City) and Leningrad Oblast (Region) are both...
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The location of logistics facilities close to consumers and well-planned transport infrastructure is important for the flow of goods and sustainability in the region.The main purpose of this research is to verify the logistics sprawl in São Paulo Metropolitan Area and to discuss its reasons. To...
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"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 …
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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...
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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 …
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The creative class approach (Florida, 2002b) has led to many developments. Therefore, measurement of creativity (Chantelot, 2010), economic influence of creative people in urban (Marlet & Van Woerkens, 2007) and rural (McGranahan & Wojan, 2007) environments, or creative people geography...
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World cities are important nodes in the global networks of knowledge-based economies. As a result of the growing complexity of knowledge creation, firms increasingly organise their activities in business networks that operate across different spatial scales. On the global scale, new information...
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This study aims at analyzing the impacts of administrative problems resulting from the two level form of urban government whose framework is outlined in the Law for Metropolitan Municipalities, over the notion of integrated planning. It is suggested that it would be impossible to mention a...
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