This paper presents an analysis of urban spatial structure and its trends in the OECD between 2001 and 2011. It does so by using a standardised definition of urban areas in 29 OECD countries as composed of high density cores and their respective commuting zones. While urban population is growing...

An increasing amount of empirical evidence documents that city-size distribution within a country follows a power law, often in the form of Zipf’s law. This paper provides new comparative evidence on city size distribution across OECD countries. It uses a database where urban agglomerations...

South Africa has achieved remarkable progress in educational attainment relative to other emerging countries, but the quality of basic education for a large fraction of the Black African population is still very low. This study identifies several hurdles to the upgrading of basic education...

C<sc>irilli</sc> A. and V<sc>eneri</sc> P. Spatial structure and carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions due to commuting: an analysis of Italian urban areas, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper investigates whether and to what extent the spatial configuration of an urban area affects the production of carbon dioxide (CO₂)...

C<sc>alafati</sc> A. G. and V<sc>eneri</sc> P. Re-defining the boundaries of major Italian cities, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The processes of spatial polarization and territorial integration that have taken place in Italy since the 1950s have not been accompanied by corresponding institutional adaptations, generating the...

<em> Le città nello sviluppo economico dell'Emilia Romagna</em> (by Andrea Cirilli, Paolo Veneri) - ABSTRACT: Objectives Emilia Romagna is one of the largest and richest regions in Italy. Its development model and its spatial organization have raised much interest in the scientific as well as in the...