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About Urban Mega Regions : Knowns and Unknowns

Yusuf, Shahid - 2012

Mega urban regions are not a passing phenomenon. They are likely to persist and to enlarge their economic footprints because they benefit from the advantages of market scale, agglomeration economies, location, and the increasing concentration of talented workers. Metropolitan regions which are...

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The Rise of the Mega-Region

Florida, Richard - 2015

This paper develops new data on mega-regions. It takes issue with theories of globalization which argue that global economic activity is being more widely decentralized-lsquo;the world is flat'. We use a global dataset of night-time light emissions to produce an objectively consistent set of...

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Urban development and social change in megacities in East Asia : Seoul, Tokyo and Shanghai in the past and present

Chang, Dukjin; Nomiya, Daishiro; Zhang, Haidong - 2021

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Book Review : City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity, by Ran Hirschl

Sethi, Amal - 2021

: Constitutionalism and the Megacity does a praiseworthy job of calling out the constitutional silence of cities and making a case for … and the Megacity raises tough questions and forces us to confront them head-on. This is a field-defining book – the …, and Hirschl has ensured that. City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity has left us with endless possibilities to …

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SARS-CoV-2 Spread, Detection, and Dynamics in a Megacity in Latin America

Laajaj, Rachid; De Los Rios Rueda, Camilo; … - 2021

In many developing countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has spread much faster and wider than the number of detected cases implies. By combining data from 59,770 RT-PCR tests on mostly asymptomatic individuals with administrative data on all detected cases, we capture the spread and dynamics of the...

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The Authoritarian Commons : Divergent Paths of Neighborhood Democratization in Three Chinese Megacities

Qiao, Shitong - 2021

Can a liberal commons emerge in an authoritarian regime? Based on an in-depth investigation of the ongoing self-governance movement among hundreds of millions of homeowners in China, this research examines the tension between authoritarianism and liberal commons for the first time. Empirically...

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