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This paper models and examines empirically the evolution of cities in an economy. Twentieth century evolution in the USA is characterized by parallel growth of cities of different types and on-going entry of new cities, together maintaining a stable relative size distribution of cities. Each...
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The research article explores various concepts of urban form given by various authors across the world. The research emphasised on reviewing various authors and their understanding of urban form, factors affecting urban form through systematic literature review. The research paper also attempted...
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Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form. In the 21st century, the dominant form of city living is based on the...
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infrastructure and effective policy reforms. This study investigates that, how urbanization impacts economic growth and development … to find the relationship of human capital and urbanization and their convergence towards economic growth through capacity … development. Secondly, it examines the role of urbanization in the formation of human capital and to find the channels through …
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Heterogeneous panel causality tests are employed to consider the relationship between urbanization change and economic … that relationship. Urbanization caused economic growth in high income countries, but non-causality could not be rejected …-income, predominately African countries where economic growth had a positive, causal effect on urbanization, but where urbanization, in turn …
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Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form. In the 21st century, the dominant form of city living is based on the...
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Cities are faced with serious issues resulting from urban sprawl, and one way to manage this is through the implementation of urban growth boundaries (UGB). The complexity of cities makes long-term planning extremely difficult. The high level of uncertainty, currently inherent in any complex and...
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