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Far from a typical Mediterranean model, today is practically impossible not to discuss European cities without taking into account phenomena of urban sprawl, which bring at dynamics of dispersion of artificial soil in rural areas, discontinuously but plentiful. Excessive alternating between...
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It is a fact that the urban sprawl, known as the process of gradual spread out of urbanization has become a worldwide … what, it is called Post-Fordism economy and some authors have characterized as counter-urbanization (Berry) desurbanization … increasing consumption of land, the excessive use of land as a scarce resource, it is a constant in the urbanization process in …
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This paper aims to study the effect of a major historical event on the Spanish city size distribution, the Spanish Reconquista. This was a long military campaign that aimed to expel Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. The process started in the early 1200s and ended around 1500, when the entire...
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Using the perceptions of a sample of 231 people from a Spanish region as a case study, this paper aims to respond to the increasing demand for measurement of economic, social and environmental performance of renewables implementation. First, from this information, the paper analyzes the...
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urbanization agglomeration patterns of new firm location. To this end, we analyze the location decisions of new manufacturing firms … in Spain. First, for a 3-digit level, we identify for each industry which type of agglomeration economies - localization … or urbanization- explain new firm's location. And second, using the coefficients obtained in these estimations for both …
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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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specifications and introducing different measures for agglomeration at country level, especially urbanization and urban concentration …
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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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