Industrial parks are as popular as they are controversial, in India and globally. At their best they align infrastructure provision and agglomeration economies to jolt industrial growth. More often, they generate negative spill-overs, provide handouts, sit empty, or simply do not get built. This...

China is the world's largest exporter and second largest importer. It is the only developing country other than Russia on the list of the world's top ten exporters. The value of its imports is only about 300 billion USD less than the US's imports, and over 700 billion USD from the next largest...

Since the seminal work of Jane Jacobs, it has become conventional wisdom among scholars and professional planners that high residential density and mixed commercial and residential land use reduce street crime. This notion has been influential in guiding planning decisions, but empirical...

The objective of the Indonesian economic policy is to alleviate poverty and increase employment. The existence of Free trade zone area or special zones (SEZ) have been proven to help countries in fostering economic growth. Some of the key characteristics of successful zones are that they offer...

This paper presents an application-oriented theoretical platform and a new model, providing adequate approaches to solving boundary-spanning challenges for regional growth, strengthening competitiveness, sustainability and development of building conservation. Research on such a comprehensive...

Free trade zones (FTZs) date back to the time of the Phoenicians; they developed in the 1970s and proliferated from 1980 until today. FTZs are duty-free areas where goods may be warehoused, processed, sold, serviced, distributed, showcased, packaged, labeled, sorted, assembled, and manufactured...

An equation characterizing the stability loss in elastoplastic deformation is proposed for a complex stress state under the influence of the transverse-deformation coefficient. The influence of the transverse-deformation coefficient on the radius of the plastic zone at the crack tip is...