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attention. One part of his theory says that the "creative class" - people with highly creative and innovative abilities - are … series analysis is completed by some additional cross-section regressions. The often mentioned criticism on Florida's theory …
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The urban and regional influence of contemporary passengers, goods and information traffic within the new global economy based on knowledge and logistics, and the physical structures that shape the networks (harbours, airports, train stations, motorways) are assumed as capitally important....
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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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Territorial cohesion (TC) is a multi dimensional concept, but lacking precision and not easy to be operationalized. Analysed are different scopes (or segments) of the concept and the indicators of its implementation in policy planning and decisionmaking. Amongst the already used in practice or...
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concept of globalization. It is emphasized that cities are the center of spatial transformation where the globalization mostly … are destined to lose. The context of this paper is about the effects of the globalization and changes in the economic …
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negative consequences of globalization as a consequence of the single market and monetary union. It is however less easy to …
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In this paper we try to identify manufacturing and service clusters in Spain, using data from Mercantile Registers of 2006. The proposed methodology partially follows contributions of Duranton and Overman (2005), Brenner (2003 and 2004) and Ellison and Glaser (1997), but departing from them we...
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neoclassical mainstream economics. Thünen is mostly known from secondary and tertiary interpretations, which are sometimes … graphical presentation of the results. However, the methodology, the comparison of the theory and the empirics, the critical … as generally true what is true only under these specific assumptions. The history of economics gives us many striking …
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This paper proposes a methodology to measure spatial effects of roads and local authorities' seats in a diffusion of business activity, which usually follows the distance decay patterns, from core to periphery. Regional development policy, pursued by regional authorities, directed to local units...
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In the present paper we analyse for the first time as far as we know, the ancient Greek regional proto-federations, of free-democratic city-states. We examine their political institutions and policies, like common defense and external policy, military organization, representative federal bodies...
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