Agglomeration

Developed Countries ◽

Formal Modeling ◽

Economic Activities ◽

Research Topics ◽

City Formation ◽

Sedentary Life ◽

Agglomeration of economic activities is the phenomenon that has been observed since humans shifted from migratory life to sedentary life after the spread of farming. Urban agglomerations continue today, and the economy of developed countries is typically dominated by cities. Naturally, agglomeration has been one of the major research topics in urban and regional economics. The formal modeling of agglomeration started in 1970s and grew rapidly thereafter. It first focused on the endogenous city formation; in particular, the formation of the central business district within a city, the presence of which has been treated as exogenous in the classical urban economics. The formation of multiple cities and the agglomeration of more general economic activities as well as their spatial coordination were studied in more recent years. Given the economic integration that took place in different parts of the world in the 1990s and thereafter, today agglomeration has become a common keyword in characterizing not only urban and regional economy, but also international economy.

Sustainability Literacy of Older People in Retirement Villages

Journal of Aging Research ◽

10.1155/2014/919054 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2014 ◽

pp. 1-7 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Bo Xia ◽

Jian Zuo ◽

Martin Skitmore ◽

Laurie Buys ◽

Xin Hu

Keyword(s):

Older People ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Living Environment ◽

Retirement Village ◽

Social Communications ◽

Sustainability Literacy ◽

Literacy Survey ◽

Business District ◽

The Village

With many developed countries experiencing the aging of the population, older people play a large role in contributing to environmental problems but also to environmental solutions. The purpose of this research is to understand the awareness and behavior of current older people living in retirement villages towards sustainability development. To achieve this, a sustainability literacy survey was conducted with 65 older residents of a private retirement village located 10 Km outside the Brisbane, Australia’s central business district (CBD). Most of residents recognized the importance of environment protection and would like to lead a more environmentally friendly lifestyle. In addition, the majority were willing to pay higher prices for a living environment with sustainable features. The importance of positive social communications was emphasized with most residents having established good relationships with others in the village. The findings provide an important insight into consumer perspectives regarding the sustainable features that should and can be incorporated into the village planning and development.

Associating street-network centrality with spontaneous and planned subcentres

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098020931302 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 004209802093130

Author(s):

Burcu H. Ozuduru ◽

Chris J. Webster ◽

Alain J. F. Chiaradia ◽

Eda Yucesoy

Keyword(s):

A Priori ◽

Street Network ◽

Economic Activities ◽

Topological Graph ◽

Urban Dynamics ◽

Planning Policy ◽

Different Types ◽

Business District ◽

The City

Scientific studies have long demonstrated how economic activities regularly distribute themselves within a city in response to geographical centrality. Following the growing interest in network geography in understanding urban dynamics, rather than measuring centrality (accessibility) by a priori knowledge of central business district (CBD) locations, in this article we measure the centrality of each link in a city’s street network, modelled as a topological graph. We use this to understand clustering behaviour of firms by industrial classification in the city of Ankara, Turkey. Our underlying hypothesis rests on the assumption that the geometry and topology of an urban grid contains accessibility information about the distribution of agglomeration economies and diseconomies, and that different types of enterprises are sensitive to this distribution in various ways. Among other things, the results of the study allow us to predict the evolution of what we call candidate centres (locations that could, by virtue of their connectivity footprint, become subcentres), actual subcentres and CBD functions in response to changes in a city’s street network. Decoding how commercial cluster locations interact with the detailed pattern of street-network-based centralities will be helpful for urban planning policy, in particular for commercial zoning decisions such as expanding CBDs and identifying locations for new subcentres that have an acceptable chance of success.

Spatial Distribution of Employment in Hermosillo, 1999–2004

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098012448552 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 49 (16) ◽

pp. 3663-3678 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Liz Rodríguez-Gámez ◽

Sandy Dallerba

Keyword(s):

Spatial Data ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Spatial Data Analysis ◽

Spatial Effects ◽

North West ◽

Large Cities ◽

The North ◽

Historical District ◽

While the suburbanisation process has been well documented in some large cities of several developed countries, much less attention has been devoted to the case of small and middle-sized cities in developing countries. This article focuses on an exploratory spatial data analysis to investigate the location of the central business district (CBD) and other employment centres in Hermosillo, Mexico. The results reveal the significant presence of spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity, although their extent varies with the sector under study. These spatial effects take the form of a persistent cluster of high values of employment around the historical district of the city shaping a huge CBD, although a sub-centre of high values emerges to the south and to the north-west of the CBD in 2004. Overall, Hermosillo is still characterised by a traditional monocentric model, but the role of its CBD has changed.

LAND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DECISIONS IN CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT (CBD) OF THE TAMALE METROPOLIS IN GHANA

International Journal of Applied Research in Social Sciences ◽

10.51594/ijarss.v3i4.270 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 65-76

Author(s):

Justice Agyei Ampofo

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

Resource Development ◽

Northern Region ◽

Primary Data ◽

Land Resource ◽

Economic Activities ◽

Tamale Metropolis ◽

Planning Department ◽

Tamale Metropolis have been experiencing a significant increase in economic activities especially with the influx of occupation, tertiary institutions, industrial explorations and usage of the town as the main transit route to other parts of the Northern Region and Ghana as a whole. Development of a Central Business District (CBD) has become very crucial for Tamale Metropolis as is seen in other parts of Ghana but this can best occur only depending on Land Resource Development Decisions (LRDD) taken by developers as every Central Business District backbone is on the built environment. This study explored the land resource development decisions in the Tamale Metropolis. The primary data for the study was obtained mainly through interviews with property owners within the Central Business District of Tamale Central. Existing literature both published and unpublished were also secured and reviewed. The study found out that there are more ripped for redevelopment properties than redeveloped properties within the Central Business District of Tamale Central with a source of funding being the major challenge towards redevelopment. Education, occupation and income are key things that were revealed to have a significant influence on the issue of redevelopment decisions within the Central Business District of Tamale. The study recommends that there should be awareness creation on the various aspects of redevelopment to developers within the Tamale Metropolis by the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly, the introduction of a by-law on redevelopment within the CBD of Tamale by the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly Town and Country Planning Department and a special mortgage scheme by mortgage institutions/financial institutions in Ghana to support low-income developers in Tamale Metropolis to contribute to development and redevelopment of the housing industry thereby reducing the housing deficit of Ghana. Keywords: Land, Resource, Development, Redevelopment, Redevelopment Decisions, Central Business District (CBD). Tamale Metropolis, Northern Region, Ghana.

Effectiveness of Fear and Crime Prevention Strategy for Sustainability of Safe City

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su122410593 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (24) ◽

pp. 10593

Author(s):

Seng Boon Lim ◽

Chee Kong Yong ◽

Jalaluddin Abdul Malek ◽

Mohd Fuad Mat Jali ◽

Abd Hair Awang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Fear Of Crime ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Kuala Lumpur ◽

Increasing Trend ◽

Emerging And Developing Countries ◽

Business District ◽

Prevention Of Crime ◽

Prevention Methods ◽

Everyday Living

Crime is a manifestation of incivility that society attempts to curb, yet faces enormous challenges, as crime is a by-product of urbanization and human advancement. As more agglomeration of the population in cities around the globe, humankind’s safety from being threatened by crime needed to be safeguard to sustain everyday living in cities. Humans’ co-existence with crime and fear of crime in cities vis-a-vis efforts preventing it from occurring has been widely carried out in developed countries. An increasing trend is showing in emerging and developing countries. Therefore, this article provides empirical evidence regarding a safe city program launched in Malaysia. This study aims to identify the factors contributing to the prevention of crime and fear of crime. This study employed a survey questionnaire to 400 pedestrians’ perceptions of Kuala Lumpur city’s central business district. The result showed that prevention methods through the actor of “capable guardians” (i.e., authorities) are effective; however, methods through the actor of “suitable victims” (i.e., communities) is ineffective. Further studies should explore perspective of the actor of “likely offenders” (i.e., criminals) to fill in the gap of safe city program’s effectiveness and sustainability.

Levels of Residential Satisfaction with Housing Location in Neighbourhoods South of Johannesburg Central Business District

10.15396/eres2007_403 ◽

2007 ◽

Keyword(s):

Residential Satisfaction ◽

PENGARUH INFRASTRUKTUR SECARA SPASIAL TERHADAP KONVERGENSI PERTUMBUHAN EKONOMI DI INDONESIA

INFO ARTHA ◽

10.31092/jia.v1i1.67 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 17-28

Author(s):

Anisa Fahmi

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Regional Economics ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Road Infrastructure ◽

Long Run ◽

Catch Up ◽

The Developed Countries ◽

Positive Effect ◽

Neoclassical Growth Theory

Motivated by inter-regional disparities condition that occurs persistently, this study examines the Indonesian economy in the long run in order to know whether it tends to converge or diverge. This convergence is based on the Solow Neoclassical growth theory assuming the existence of diminishing returns to capital so that when the developed countries reach steady state conditions, developing countries will continuously grow up to 'catch-up' with developed countries. Based on regional economics perspective, each region can not be treated as a stand-alone unit,therefore, this study also focuses on the influence of spatial dependency and infrastructure. Economical and political situations of a region will influence policy in that region which will also have an impact to the neighboring regions. The estimation results of spatial cross-regressive model using fixed effect method consistently confirmed that the Indonesian economy in the long term will likely converge with a speed of 8.08 percent per year. Other findings are road infrastructure has a positive effect on economic growth and investment and road infrastructure are spatially showed a positive effect on economic growth. In other words, the investment and infrastructure of a region does not only affect the economic growth of that region but also to the economy of the contiguous regions.