This study focused on the Edo city and the basin of the Tokyo bay in the late 19th century. Edo is the former name of Tokyo, Japan, and was the central political city in the Edo period, which was from 1603 to 1868. In 1603 the Shogunate Government of Edo was formed, and the Edo period was ruled...

The distance puzzle has been wildly discussed in the literature since Leamer and Levinsohn (1995) shed the light on it. This puzzle simply says that “the world is not getting smaller”: distance still matters to account for trade. This is reflected in a decreasing distance of...

Abstract Tourism is one of the most dynamic and fastest growing global industries and its growth is necessarily beneficial because it will contribute to economic development in heritage places. But it is clear that heritage places are fragile and vulnerable to tourism if not managed. Managing...

The aim of the paper is to describe the structure, the dimension and the features of the net designed on the territory by the relationships between the headquarters and the local units of multi-location enterprises in Italy. Network analysis has been applied to spot these relationships,...

We present a simple reproducible methodology for constructing regional capital stock data, which we apply to Israel. We find that capital deepening has been sigma-convergent since 1985. This process is “inverted” since capital stocks and capital-labor ratios in the richer...

This paper aims to analyse whether the existing logistic platforms network in Spain is covering the Spanish transport demand by using a spatial marked point pattern analysis (Baddeley, 2008). In particular, we use the demand of transport to export goods as a proxy of the demand of logistics...

The Relationships between Living Conditions and life satisfaction of elderly people in Istanbul Lale BERKOZ, Funda YÃRMÃBESOGLU ITU, Faculty of Architecture Department of Urban and Regional Planning Taksim, Taşkışla, 34437, Ãstanbul e-mail: lberkoz@gmail.com The rate of the elderly...

According Zipf's Law, city sizes follow a Pareto distribution, with the rank (R) of a city i being proportional to its size (S): R(i)=A*S-α or ln(R) = ln(A)-α*ln(S), where α is a slope gradient or Pareto parameter, varying around 1. However, several empirical studies,...

The aim of this study is to examine the determinants of international banking. In doing so, it utilizes data from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). In particular, the primal variable of interest is drawn from BIS Consolidated Statistics and refers to banks’ foreign claims....

The post-industrial information society leads to new patterns of societal change. Despite the changes, the conventional monetary market oriented economic view of development is still dominant. However, essential values are often concealed or even excluded in conventional monetary analyses. Rural...