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Examining the town planning scheme of India and lessons from land readjustment in Japan

Jain, Vibhu - 2019

Land is a scarce resource; hence, efficient land management techniques are critical for its procurement and development. The land readjustment (LR) mechanism is one such land assembly tool, which many countries, including Japan, have adopted, and is known as the Town Planning Scheme (TP Scheme) in...

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Econometric analysis of the effect of economic globalization, energy intensity, urbanization,industrialization and growth on CO² emissions of Bangladesh

Sharmin, Mowshumi; Tareque, Mohammad - In: Managing global transitions : international research journal 16 (2018) 4, pp. 335-354

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Pandemics, places, and populations : evidence from the Black Death

Jedwab, Remi; Johnson, Noel D.; Koyama, Mark - 2019

The Black Death killed 40% of Europe's population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history of mankind. Despite its historical importance, little is known about its spatial effects and the effects of pandemics more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides...

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Urban governance of disease

Katz, Rebecca; Mookherji, Sangeeta; Kaminski, Morgan; … - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 2 (2012) 2, pp. 135-147

Rapid population growth, urbanization, and the growing challenges faced by the urban poor require redefining the …

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Rush hours and urbanization

Seidel, Tobias; Wickerath, Jan - 2019

We use a spatial general equilibrium model with potential commuting of workers between their place of work and their place of residence to analyze the effects of rush hours on the spatial allocation of employment and population, average labor productivity and the housing market. Abolishing...

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China's changing economy and emissions trajectory : following global trends

Sanwal, Mukul; Zheng, Xinzhu - In: Climate policy 18 (2018) 1, pp. 36-41

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Spatial nature of urban well-being

Ala-Mantila, Sanna; Heinonen, Jukka; Junnila, Seppo; … - In: Regional studies 52 (2018) 7, pp. 959-973

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Corporate urbanization : between the future and survival in Lebanon

Sharp, Deen S. - 2018

capitalization is now central to the urbanization process and that the urban fabric has provided the corporation with a durable … structure to guarantee a stream of income. Capitalized urbanization, I contend, is the building of a certain future into the … urban present - also understood as the extension of time (the future) through the concentration of space (urbanization). It …

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Climate, urbanization, and conflict : the effects of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder

Castells-Quintana, David; McDermott, Thomas K. J. - 2019

In this paper, we test the effect of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder for a panel of large cities in developing countries. We focus on a particular mechanism, namely the displacement of population into (large) cities. We test this hypothesis using a novel dataset on...

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Remoteness, urbanization and child nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa

Headey, Derek; Stifel, David; You, Liangzhi; Guo, Zhe - 2017

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