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This paper examines the current challenges in urban waste management systems under EU regulations for a newcomer state. Piatra Neamț is among the first Romanian cities which made the transition from a traditional to a modern waste management infrastructure through ISPA funds. These changes are...
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Anthropogenic landforms are the result of significant changes in the Earth's crust due to technological development of human society, guided by its economic, social and cultural needs. anthropogenic landforms of the studied area was analyzed using GIS techniques at the general scale, conducting...
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fundamental economic forces such as rising incomes, population growth and low commuting costs. In Switzerland, all these factors …, employment distribution/structure, and commuting. We expect e.g. that a growing number of single households accelerates urban …
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After a discussion of the meaning of ‘sustainable public transport’, this Workshop discussed issues of need, system design, institutional arrangements, environmental improvements and social aspects of service. Land use/transport integration was seen as critical for long term strategic...
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This discussion paper led to a publication in the <I>Journal of Regional Science</I> (2012). Vol. 52(5), pages 733-761.<P> Contemporary European urban planning policies aim to mix land uses in compact neighbourhoods. It is presumed that mixing land uses yields socio-economic benefits and therefore has a...</p></i>
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Environment, history and chance, shape people and cultures, which shape cities, which shape people and cultures, and so on, in a Systemic Retroactive Game. The quintessential essence of Isotropic (or Isobenefit) Urbanism is to solve Systemic Retroactive Game problems downstream rather than...
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introduction of a commuter train on a pre-existing railroad in Sweden, considerably decreasing commuting times by public transit …
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whether the commute has a positive effect on worker’s absenteeism. Our estimates for Germany indicate that commuting distance …
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study of commuting behavior. This is illustrated by showing that introduction of a spatial element into the standard model … decentralized employment the spatial search model predicts excess commuting. Search theory also suggests that regression towards the …
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workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch …
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