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Regional variation in urbanisation in India and the emergence of new towns

Chatterjee, Mahalaya - 2014

towns. The average level of urbanisation hardly says anything about the regional diversity in urbanisation in the country …. The smaller city states (e.g. Delhi, Chandigarh and Goa) have urbanisation level nearly 100 percent. Among the large … states the highest level of urbanisation in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, followed by western states of Maharashtra and …

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Malthus living in a slum : urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth

Castells-Quintana, David - 2014 - (Preliminary version)

rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is … concentrate in one or few large metropolitan areas of disproportionate size. While urbanisation has been long recognised as a … fundamental element of the process of economic development, sustainable urbanisation has become one of the main and more pressing …

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Agriculture and regional development in Greece

Kyrkilis, Dimitrios; Semasis, Simeon - 2012

This paper attempts to explore the effects of post-war war economic development model followed in Greece. The model is characterized by both the neglect of Greek agriculture and the emphasis on industrialization, mainly around the two major cities, Athens and Thessaloniki. The model has to...

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Changes in Japanese industrial structure and urbanization : evidence from prefectural data

Murakami, Naoki - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 20 (2015) 3, pp. 385-403

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Indiens Städte : Modernisierung und Fragmentierung

Dittrich, Christoph - In: "Entwicklungsländer"? : verwickelte Welten - auf der …, (pp. 63-83). 2013

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Économie urbaine et comportement du consommateur face au climat : effet sur les prix hédonistes et sur l'étalement urbain

Cavailhès, Jean; Joly, Daniel; Hilal, Mohamed; … - In: Revue économique : revue bimestrielle 65 (2014) 4, pp. 591-619

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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 Transition in 1990 the patterns of the settlement system...

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Creative city : a new challenge of strategic urban planning?

Deffner, Alex; Vlachopoulou, Christina - 2011

'Sustainable' city, 'entrepreneurial' city, 'smart' city, 'normal' city are some of the most popular characterisations given to cities by urban planners in their attempt to configure the necessary development features of contemporary urban space. The aim of these characteristics is the...

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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...

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What makes cities bigger and richer? : new evidence from 1990 - 2000 in the US

González-Val, Rafael - 2011

This paper analyses the determinants of growth of American cities, understood as growth of the population or of per capita income, from 1990 to 2000. This empirical analysis uses data from all cities with more than 25,000 inhabitants in the year 2000 (1154 cities). The results show that while a...

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