European Spatial Research and Policy: Ostatnio dodane
Wyświetlanie pozycji 361-380 z 382
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Poland in the Period of Economic Transition and Germany After Reunification an Attempt at Assessing Σ-Convergence
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2010-11-19)In 2009 and 2010 Poland and Germany are celebrating some important anniversaries - 20 years of the first free elections and the fall of the Berlin Wall. These jubilees inspire research aiming at taking stock of developments ... -
Adoption of Technology and Regional Convergence in Europe
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2010-11-19)This paper examines the pattern of convergence in labour productivity across regions due to their ability to adopt technology. Whether regions exhibit a pattern of convergence depends on the degree to which infrastructure ... -
Post-Apartheid National Spatial Development Planning in South Africa - A Brief History
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2010-11-19)Since coming to power in 1994 successive ANC-governments have engaged in a series of attempts at national spatial development planning in South Africa. These engagements have received scant treatment in the planning ... -
Telling Stories - A History of Growth Management in the Gauteng Province (South Africa)
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2010-11-19)The sprawled nature of major South African cities can be attributed to a variety of reasons. The 1994 (post-apartheid) political shift, however, prompted cities and regions to plan for more equitable and accessible cities. ... -
An Overview of South Africa's Metropolitan Areas - Dualistic, Dynamic and under Threat…
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2010-11-19)The article explores the threats posed to metropolitan viability and resilience in South Africa which is faced by continued spatial and economic concentration and duality - a trend also evident in a number of Central ... -
South Africa (2009) - Salient Contemporary Features in Facts and Figures
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2010-11-19)South Africa is a demographically diverse country where many divisions (still) tend to coincide with racial boundaries, beset by a wide range of socio-economic problems typical of developing countries and otherwise stemming ... -
Ten Countries - Twenty Years Administrative Reforms in Ten New Eu-Members Two Decades After Revolution
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Analysing Local Employment and Unemployment in Greece Under Conventional Zoning Regimes and Partitions Extracted from the Data
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The Dynamics of Regional Labour Markets and Training Programmes: Greek Evidence
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The Old and the Stubborn? Firm Characteristics and Relocation in the Netherlands
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2010-05-24)This study gives some insight into the relationships between the spatial environment, firm characteristics and long term existence of firms in the Netherlands. A logit model is employed to investigate the locational ... -
Regional Concentration and Specialisation in Agricultural Activities in EU-9 Regions (1950-2000)
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2010-05-24)Both traditional (von Thünen) and modern (Hayami & Ruttan, Krugman) theories on land use suggest that productions with a high value added per unit of land tend to be located near urban centres. In this article it is tested ... -
Territorial Cohesion in the Context of Interregional and Transnational Cooperation
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2010-05-24)This paper draws on experience from the Interreg IIIC project ProgreSDEC, covering local and regional authorities from Greece, Italy, and Spain cooperating with each other in interregional and transnational projects. It ... -
The Role of Vegetation in the Urban Policies of European Cities in the Age of the Sustainable City
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2013-12)The emergence of the modern concept of the sustainable city raises afresh the longstanding issue of the place and role of vegetation in urban and peri-urban areas in Europe. The awareness of biodiversity and the exploration ... -
Land Quality, Development and Space: Does Scale Matter?
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2014-01-22)This study analyzes empirically the relationship between land quality decline and the spatial distribution of per capita income observed in Italy at different spatial scales and geographical divisions. The aim of this ... -
Deconstruction of the Planning Process in the 21st Century
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2014-01-22)By increasing the changes in the last years of the second millennium, relying on the planning methods, which are based on forecasting, cannot meet the needs of management of countries at large scale. The heavy burden of ... -
Informal Housing in Greece: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis at the Regional Level
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2014-01-22)This paper deals with the primary causes of informal housing in Greece as well as the observed differentiations in informal housing patterns across space. The spatial level of analysis is the prefectural administrative ... -
The Model’s Limitations. What ‘Urban Sustainability’ for Port-au-Prince? European Urban Projects Put to the Test by the Haitian City
(Lodz Univeristy Press, 2014-01-22)In 2010, the capital of Haiti was devastated by an earthquake that seemed to provide the opportunity for the country, as well as foreign donors, to put Port-au-Prince on the track of an ordered, planned urban policy, in ...