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International city's networks and diplomacy
Balbim, Renato - 2021
The internationalization of cities and the constitution of a new international space of power involves a much more expressive number of cities than the usual global cities. Nowadays, dozens of international organizations are composed of regional capitals, medium, and even small cities. With...
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The Greater Paris : a plan for a global city : ERSA 54th Congress : Regional development & globalisation: best practices : Saint Petersburg, Russia, 26-29 August 2014 : special ses...
Bourdeau-Lepage, Lise - 2014
Over the last decade or so, the debate on the planning and development of the Paris (Île-de-France) region has revolved around two little words: "Grand Paris", or Greater Paris. Despite existing political and scientific controversies surrounding the future of the capital region, three major...
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Restructuring for Growth in Urban China : Transitional Institutions, Urban Development, and Spatial Transformation
Wei, Yehua Dennis - 2012
This research examines government policies and urban transformation in China through a study of Hangzhou City, which is … of China, Hangzhou has been restlessly searching for strategies to promote economic growth and survive the competition … with Shanghai. This paper analyzes Hangzhou's development strategies, including globalization, tourism, industrial …
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Trends for smart city strategies in emerging Asia
Matsumoto, Tadashi; Crook, Jonathan N.; Tanaka, Kensuke - 2019
Smart cities represent the future of urban development in Emerging Asia as more and more cities and countries resort to smart technologies to build more efficient and liveable urban environments, boost economic growth, foster well-being and facilitate citizen engagement. Policy makers in the...
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Evolution of high-speed rail and its development effects : stylized facts and review of relationships
Bharule, Shreyas; Kidokoro, Tetsuo; Seta, Fumihiko - 2019
The potential effects of high-speed rail (HSR) reach into many overlapping fields of interest. This paper summarizes the evolution of HSR and elaborates on the development effects of the HSR transport infrastructure. HSR can simultaneously become a core component on desired urban developments,...
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Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia : A Conceptual Framework
Matsumoto, Tadashi - 2014
The development of Asian cities is characterised by rapid and continuous urbanisation on an unprecedented scale, with rapid economic growth led in most places by the manufacturing industry, and rapidly increasing motorisation. The result has been escalating greenhouse gas emissions, sprawling...
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Cities and green growth : the case of the Chicago Tri-State metropolitan area
2013
This working paper assesses opportunities and policies for green growth in the Chicago Tri-State Metropolitan Area. It first examines the Chicago metro-region's economic and environmental performance and potential constraints to regional growth, and identifies emerging regional specialisations...
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Regional investments in Southern European cities
Metaxas, Theodore - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 61 (2011) 1/2, pp. 55-79
The article examines the capacity of four medium-sized cities in Southern Europe, concerning the current situation of their assets (agglomeration economies, urban infrastructures, factors of labor and cost, etc.), the degree of development policies implementation and effectiveness by local...
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Anything New in Town? The Local Effects of Urban Regeneration Policies in Italy
Albanese, Giuseppe - 2019
The paper estimates the local effects of urban regeneration policies by using evidence from interventions that took place in small and medium-sized cities in the Centre and North of Italy over the period 2008-12. By using an Oaxaca-Blinder reweighting estimator, we find little support for the...
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Innovation Districts as a Strategy for Urban Economic Development : A Comparison of Four Cases
Drucker, Joshua M. - 2019
This study investigates the urban economic development strategy of innovation districts. As the phenomenon of innovation districts currently is flourishing and expanding across the nation, it commands rigorous attention from those interested in understanding economic development in the United...
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