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Transit-Oriented Development Policies and Station Area Development in Asian Cities

Kidokoro, Tetsuo - 2019

Many metropolitan cities in Asia are planning and implementing extensive investment in mass transit networks and thus are now on the threshold of becoming transit cities or car traffic saturation cities. The promotion of transit-oriented development (TOD) policies will be a key to the...

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Empowering Cities : Good for Growth? Evidence from the People's Republic of China

Mukim, Megha - 2018

This paper utilizes a countrywide process of county-to-city upgrading in the 1990s to identify whether extending the powers of urban local governments leads to better firm outcomes. The paper hypothesizes that since local leaders in newly promoted cities have an incentive to utilize their new...

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Dar es Salaam as a 'harbour of peace' in East Africa : tracing the role of creolized urban ethnicity in nation-state formation

Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - 2010

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Violent urbanization and homogenization of space and place : reconstructing the story of sectarian violence in Beirut

Yassin, Nasser - 2010

place) and territoriality in the course of waging sectarian violence. -- urbanization ; cities ; urban conflict ; Lebanon …

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The Cost of Misguided Urbanization: The Case of Informal Settlements in Butuan City, Philippines

Navarro, Ma. Kresna D.; Almaden, Catherine Roween C. - In: EconStor Open Access Articles (2014), pp. 441-451

The informal settlements in Butuan City, Philippines pose the intractable problem of housing and providing services for the urban poor. They exact tremendous costs to government infrastructure projects and the city as a whole. In this study, these costs are accounted for, particularly the costs...

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Urban Growth, Uninsured Risk, and the Rural Origins of Aggregate Volatility

Poelhekke, Steven - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 2008

The level of urbanization has increased by over 5 percentage points per decade outside the developed world since 1960 …. Rapid urbanization was accompanied by fast economic growth and job creation in most parts of the world. However, notably … even reversed, the rate of urbanization continued its fast pace. This paper aims to explain this by introducing an …

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The cost of misguided urbanization : the case of informal settlements in Butuan City, Philippines

Navarro, Ma. Kresna D.; Almaden, Catherine Roween C. - 2014

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Migration in the People's Republic of China

Lu, Ming; Xia, Yiran - 2016

opening up. Rapid urbanization in the PRC has resulted from recent decades of intense rural-urban migration. The scale of … interregional migration. Facing the challenges of fast urbanization and growing urban diseases, local governments still rely on the … lead to more social problems. Policy makers should reconsider the way to achieve efficient and harmonious urbanization by …

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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

In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor productivity. In this study, we used earlier census data and 1% population survey data to examine the distribution of the skilled workforce in cities in the People's Republic of...

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When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development

De Weerdt, Joachim; Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2021

While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why migrants move to seemingly suboptimal destinations. Using an 18-year panel of...

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