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Paper of the Day the Second
Is here: Recent concepts as megaregions and polycentric urban regions emphasize that external economies are not confined to a single urban core, but shared among a collection of close-by and linked cities. However, empirical analysis of agglomeration and agglomeration externalities so-far neglects the multicentric spatial organization... [read more]
Review: Megaregions, Edited by Catherine L. Ross
“The long-term utility of the megaregion as a distinct planning scale is still unproven. Does the megaregional approach confront or evade the core planning issues of equity, democracy, livability, economic vitality, and design excellence? If Jane Jacobs old quip about a region being ‘an area safely larger than the last one to whose... [read more]
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