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Smart cities are big cities : comparative advantage in Chinese cities
Hu, Shiwei; Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2014
The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other industrialized countries. Institutional limits are largely held responsible for this finding (e.g. the Hukou system); firms and workers are not able to take full advantage of the...
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Megalopolis: An assay for the identification of the world urban mega-structures
Ramos, Blanca Arellano; Roca, Josep - 2015
the megalopolis. This methodology allows the worldwide identification of 444,502 populated areas illuminated with … million, reaching a population of 1,298,757,300 inhabitants, placing as strong candidates to be characterized as megalopolis …,374,291,094 people in their environment. These megalopolis are distributed throughout the entire planet. Asia highlights the presence of …
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Do new economic geography agglomeration shadows underlie current population dynamics across the urban hierarchy?
Partridge, Mark D.; Rickman, Dan S.; Ali, Kamar; … - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 88 (2009) 2, pp. 445-466
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Employment in Large U.S. Metropolitan Airport Areas
Appold, Stephen - 2013
Airport area planning founders on the lack of a basis for realistic projections of future employment. Using a commercial establishment database including detailed data on location, activities (sector), establishment type, and employment for the 62 airports with scheduled passenger service in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014038535
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Will talent attraction and retention improve metropolitan labor markets? : the labor market impact of increased educational attainment in U.S. metropolitan regions 1990 - 2010
Andreason, Stuart - 2015
Since the early 1990s, metropolitan entities and local governments have targeted incentives, policies, and investments with the goal of highly educated and skilled workers to locate in their communities. These efforts focus on attracting workers who hold a bachelor's degree or higher and have...
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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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Urban spatial structure and economic growth in Spanish metropolitan areas : 1992-2008
Alamá, Luisa; Roig-Casanova, Marta; Forte, Anabel; … - 2011
There is a large literature on the existence of agglomeration economies, as shown in the surveys by Moomaw (1983) or Gerking (1993). The benefits of these economies arise from multiple sources, but some negative externalities might also emerge. Within the hierarchical urban system, cities at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527324
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Identifying the employment and population centers at regional and metropolitan scale : the case of Catalonia and Barcelona : ERSA : Regions in motion : breaking the path : 52nd Eur...
Jaume, Masip Tresserra - 2012
Nowadays, the urban structure of the metropolitan areas has led to a polynucleated structure, breaking with the paradigm of the monocentric city. The specialized literature has studied this polynucleated structure by identifying the centers that are within of these urban areas. According to this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522627
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"Does employment density death? : towards a new integrated methodology to identify and characterize sub-centres" : ERSA, Regions in motion : breaking the path : 52nd European Congr...
Jaume, Masip Tresserra - 2012
In last decades, the spatial structure of the metropolitan areas has been characterized by an urban dynamics towards a more polynucleated structure, breaking with the paradigm of the monocentric city. The specialized literature has studied these polynucleated urban structures by identifying the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522621
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Suburban development of St Petersburg : comparison of 2 subjects of Federation long-term visions
Limonov, Leonid Ė. - 2014
The paper is devoted to problems of ensuring balanced and sustainable development of a very specific and important metropolitan region of the Russian Federation - the region of St Petersburg and surrounding it Leningrad Oblast. St.Petersburg (City) and Leningrad Oblast (Region) are both...
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