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What Can Developing Cities Today Learn From the Urban Past?
Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The downsides of density, including traffic congestion, contagious disease and crime, were common in Victorian London and classical Rome, just as they are today in Sao Paulo and Lagos. Our urban past provides lessons for developing world cities today. The first lesson, that I highlight, is that...
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Divergence of human capital in cities in the People's Republic of China : exploring complementarities and spatial agglomeration of the workforce with various skills
Liang, Wenquan; Lu, Ming - 2016
workforce in cities in the People's Republic of China (PRC) along with its changes, and drew the following three conclusions …
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Urban systems and urban development in the People's Republic of China
Chen, Zhao; Lu, Ming - 2015
The People's Republic of China (PRC) is experiencing a trend toward population concentration in its large coastal … suggests that the PRC government should adjust its policies on future urbanization for fewer restrictions on the further growth …
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Industrial transfer policy in China : migration and development
Gerritse, Michiel; Wang, Zhiling; Oort, Frank van - 2024
China's Industrial Transfer Policy (ITP) is a novel place-based development policy of unprecedented scale. The policy … would eventually relieve pressure in China's coastal manufacturing hubs. We use a detailed migrant survey to estimate the …
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Unequal migration and urbanisation gains in China
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi; … - 2019
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Lipa City ... emerging city for all seasons???
Cuenca, Janet S. (contributor);  … - 2004
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Die Stadtmaschine : zu einer Raumlast der organisierten Moderne
Knie, Andreas; Marz, Lutz - 1997
Die Krisenphänome der organisierten Moderne zeigen sich in Städten besonders ausgeprägt: die Auflösung klassischer Milieus, die Erodierung sinn- und ordnungsstiftender Institutionen, die soziale Segmentierung, Vereinzelung und Pluralisierung von Lebensformen. In neuen Ansätzen der...
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Demystifying compact urban growth : evidence from 300 studies from across the world
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Pietrostefani, Elisabetta; … - 2018
Most developed countries now pursue policies that implicitly or explicitly aim at promoting compact urban form. This report analyses more than 300 academic papers that study the effects of compact urban form, and finds that 69% of the papers reviewed find positive effects associated with compact...
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Understanding the experiences of relocatees during forced relocation in Chinese urban restructuring
Li, Xin; Ham, Maarten van; Kleinhans, Reinout - 2016
Despite the massive forced relocation of residents during urban restructuring in China, there are no systematic studies … on how residents undergo the process. Most studies concerning urban restructuring in China directly equate forced … restructuring in China. It takes forced relocation to be a process with changing contents over time, and as a specific type of …
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Trends for smart city strategies in emerging Asia
Matsumoto, Tadashi; Crook, Jonathan N.; Tanaka, Kensuke - 2019
Smart cities represent the future of urban development in Emerging Asia as more and more cities and countries resort to smart technologies to build more efficient and liveable urban environments, boost economic growth, foster well-being and facilitate citizen engagement. Policy makers in the...
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