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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Urban hierarchy"”.
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The role of an urban hierarchy as spatial planning instrument
… resulting in the development of a natural urban hierarchy. The urban hierarchy is therefore related to the dynamics and relationships between a set of nodes in a region. In time, certain nodes excel in development related to the relationship with other nodes in the region, hence the …
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Power Centrality as a relational measure of urban hierarchy : testing the splintering urbanism theory with social media data from Santiago de Chile
… Analysis and applied to the assessment of Urban Hierarchy. Based on the overlaps of human activity between places, Power Centrality is tried as a method for measuring a particular feedback property: How well connected are places to other well connected places. In this research Power …
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The Geography of Insurgency: An Urban Network Insurgency Model of the Viet Nam War
… insurgency as a conflict over nodes within the urban network and hypothesizes that we can expect to observe different stages of conflict (types of political activity and violence) in different parts of the urban hierarchy at different times. The hypothesized relationships were generally found to …
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Rural Planning and Zoning Adoption in the United States
… in the United States focuses heavily on urban centers. However, the 2000 Census considers one-fifth of America's population to be rural. To adequately plan for this portion of the American population requires an understanding of the strengths and barriers to planning in rural areas. Such …
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Dispersion of agglomeration through transport infrastructure
… on the productivity, scale and distribution of urban economic activities through changing intercity accessibility. Standard project-level cost-benefit analysis fails to capture the economy-wide impacts in justifying investments in the transport sector. I propose a research framework that: (1) …
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Forest Change Dynamics Across Levels of Urbanization in the Eastern US
… in the eastern US differ across levels of the urban hierarchy; 2) identify and explore key micropolitan areas that deviate from anticipated trends in forest change; and 3) develop and apply techniques for Big Data exploration of Landsat satellite images for forest cover analysis over large …
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Development and urbanisation: the case study of Amol and Mazandaran province, Iran
… population because it ignored the needs of the urban and rural economy i.e. agriculture, especially in commodities-based export countries. From 1970s onwards, the emphasis has shifted towards more a decentralised approach to development with a rural development bias. But the experience of …