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Delhi, dogs, and deep ecology : managing trans-species coexistence in urban areas

Ghosh, Nilanjan; Narlikar, Amrita - 2026

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Inclusive urban futures : from inequality to opportunity

2026

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Housing in big cities : the capitalization premium

Gehr, Katja; Kraft, Linus; Pflüger, Michael - 2026

This paper establishes a novel city size premium which may be termed the capitalization premium. Real estate investors derive benefits from investing in larger cities, most notably lower housing risk and/or higher expected rent growth. Standard asset valuation implies that, given the level of...

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Regenerating water bodies to build resilient cities in India

Sarkar, Soma - 2026

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Why the capital region keeps growing : urban accounting and spatial policy implications

Kim, Sunham - 2026

Population concentration in the Seoul Metropolitan Area has continued unabated since the 1970s. In the 2010s, diverging productivity drove this trend-gains in semiconductor and knowledge-based sectors in the capital region versus losses in manufacturingoriented regional cities. Planned city...

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Livable Pacific Cities and Towns. Spotlight : Mapping Risk, Building Resilience - Exposure Analysis of Pacific Urban Areas

2026

Cities and towns in the Pacific region face significant risks from natural hazards. These risks are projected to increase with climate change and increasing urbanization, yet they are not well understood. As a complementary technical report to Livable Pacific Cities and Towns: Urbanization...

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Total fertility rates and urban agglomeration in Asia

Kondo, Keisuke - 2026

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Productivity and left-behindness of EU metropolitan regions : trends, spatial analysis and convergence

Tsekerēs, Theodōros - 2026

Metropolitan regions are considered as major drivers of economic growth due to the significant productivity gains resulting from their agglomeration economies. This article examines the level, growth, convergence and clustering of productivity in metropolitan EU regions, as defined by Functional...

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Regional polycentricity and spatial disparities : Panacea or outcome? : evidence from the Tehran metropolitan region, Iran

Saeidishirvan, Sadegh; Dadashpoor, Hashem; Refieian, Mojtaba - 2026

This study challenges the conventional assumption that polycentric urban development inherently reduces spatial inequalities. Focusing on the Tehran Metropolitan Region between 2010 and 2020, it demonstrates that housing affordability crises can actively generate-rather than mitigate-polycentric...

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Decoupling from place? : telework and firm relocation in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area

Colaço, Rui; De Abreu e Silva, João - 2026

This paper examines how the adoption of telework reshapes the relocation intentions of single-establishment office-based service SMEs (information/communication and digital services, financial and insurance services, professional/scientific/technical services, and administrative/business-support...

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Climate policy uncertainty and housing prices : analyzing bidirectional transmission across U.S. metropolitan areas

Batabyal, Sourav; Gormus, Alper - 2026

This study examines the relationship between climate policy uncertainty (CPU) and residential housing prices across U.S. metropolitan areas using the U.S. CPU index developed by Gavriilidis in 2021 and monthly S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, covering January 1991 to May 2024....

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Spatial productivity disparities in Great Britain

Distefano, Mimosa; Donnat, Hélène; Overman, Henry G.; … - 2026

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Agglomeration and firm-level productivity in African cities

Visagie, Justin; Turok, Ivan - 2026

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Determinants of commuting in Londrina's metropolitan region : an analysis using gravity model and XGBoost

Nepomuceno, Saulo Murilo de Sousa; Raiher, Augusta Pelinski - 2026

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Immigration, innovation, and the geography of growth

Arkolakis, Costas; Peters, Michael - 2026

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Immigration, innovation, and the geography of growth

Arkolakis, Costas; Peters, Michael - 2026

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The spatial relationship between innovation capacity and housing affordability in Chinese cities

Zhang, Juanfeng; Hao, Ning; Zhan, Dongsheng; Li, Lele; … - 2026

With China's rapid urbanization, innovation capacity and housing affordability have become important factors affecting sustainable development. This paper aims to address this research gap by examining the spatial characteristics and correlation between the housing market and urban innovation...

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Maritime traffic specialization and environmental, health impacts in European port cities

Alkhoury, Charbel; Ducruet, César; Dumontet, Magali; … - 2026

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Cities in Amazonia : people and nature in harmony

2025

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Why are opioid prescribing rates higher in rural versus urban areas?

Modestino, Alicia; Young, Gary J.; Hasan, Md Mahmudul; … - 2025

Patients in rural areas have higher rates of opioid use and overdose than those in urban areas that are linked to the greater prevalence and amounts of opioids prescribed. We merge individual claims data with county-level supply and demand factors to examine this relationship between...

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A fleeting metropolitan moment : regional governance and municipal collaboration in greater Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic

Eidelman, Gabriel; Nelles, Jen - 2025

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Kill two birds with one stone : how to strengthen digital new infrastructure's impacts on urban green innovation : the channel of factor allocation

Wang, Nian; Huang, Yue; Liao, Ruiwen - 2025

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Food security status across the rural-urban continuum before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Brady, Patrick J.; Laska, Melissa N.; Widome, Rachel; … - 2025

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Integrating resilience and vulnerability components in assessing urbanization impacts on farming household livelihood strategies : insights from Ethiopia

Aboye, Bahiru Haile - 2025

Integrating resilience and vulnerability components is critical in understanding urbanization impacts on farming household livelihood strategies. This study aims to combine methods and concepts of resilience and vulnerability, that are independently analyzed by previous research to grasp...

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Morphological dynamics, landscape fragmentation and climate change vulnerability of actual and predicted urban areas of Lebanon : application of Multilayer-Perceptron Markov-Chain model

Al-Shaar, Walid; Bonin, Olivier; Seregina, Tatiana; … - 2025

Rapid urbanization in Lebanon poses problems of adaptation to climate change. This article aims to forecast and characterize urban growth, and to cross-analyze urban growth with anticipated temperature and precipitation information. It uses a combination of land use and land cover forecasts with...

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Air pollution in 88 US metropolitan areas : trends and persistence

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Carmona-González, Nieves; … - 2025

This paper analyses trends and persistence in air pollution levels in 88 US metropolitan areas using fractional integration methods. The results indicate that the differencing parameter d is higher than 0 in 38 of the series, which supports the hypothesis of long-memory behaviour and implies...

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Urban sprawl and firm green total factor productivity : evidence from China

Xie, Mufang; Zhong, Changbiao; Yu, Binbin - 2025

Based on corrected nighttime light data and firm-level data from 1998 to 2010, we use an urban sprawl index that properly captures the subtle differences in density distribution within cities, extend a hyperbolic distance specification within a parametric stochastic framework to the analysis of...

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Wrong polycentricity-right polycentricity? : insights from an empirical study in Tehran metropolitan region, Iran

Doorudinia, Abbas; Dadashpoor, Hashem; Meshkini, Abolfazl - 2025

This research delves into the complexities of assessing polycentric development, focusing on Tehran's city-region. Using a systematic analytical approach, we examine geographical boundaries, center thresholds, and measurement indicators over time. Our findings highlight the crucial role of...

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Accounting for changes in downtown office occupancy since the pandemic

Rappaport, Jordan - 2025

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A better delineation of U.S. metropolitan areas

Rappaport, Jordan; Humann, McKenzie - 2025

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A better delineation of U.S. metropolitan areas

Rappaport, Jordan; Humann, McKenzie - 2025 - updated May 2025

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The urban learning premium : evidence from Peru

Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu; Pozo Segura, Juan … - 2025

We examine the urban learning and schooling premium in Peru using two approaches: 1) estimating the effect of local population density on pupils' value-added in learning between grades two to eight, 2) quasi-experimental Census estimations on the effects of the duration of urban exposure in...

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The economic urban divide : a detailed study of income inequality and segregation in Dutch urban areas (2011-2022)

San Millán, Javier; Cottineau-Mugadza, Clémentine; … - 2025

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Concrete adaptation under extreme precipitation

Garbarino, Nicola - 2025

Does land development adapt to changing climate risks? Extreme precipitation increases flood risk, yet land-use decisions may overlook rare events. Drawing on nearly half a century of climate and land-use data for Europe (1975-2020), this paper finds that extreme precipitation slows the...

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Urbanization without structural transformation? : a case study of the Nairobi metropolitan area

Magero, Joshua - 2025

Using data from Kenya's 2016 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises survey, the 2017 Census of Establishments, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions, this paper examines the patterns of structural transformation as well as its drivers and barriers in Nairobi. The findings show that...

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Befolkningsutviklingen i Norge, Sverige og utvalgte storbyområder

Skjerpen, Terje; Wiik, Kenneth Aarskaug - 2025

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Dangerous density : urban density and the criminalization of China

Ma, Ning; Chen, Lu; Zeng, Zihan - 2025

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Identifying and analyzing logistics land use : a case study of the Rhineland Metropolitan Region

Thiemermann, Andre; Groß, Florian - 2025

In Germany, the identification of logistics land is rarely done, among other things due to the anonymization of employment and building data. The paper at hand gives an overview of data sources used for the identification of spatial patterns of logistics facilities and presents a method for...

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Synergetic evolution of energy-economy-environment-society system : a case study of Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration, China

An, Min; Xu, Wei; Wang, Xiaoyan; He, Weijun; Fang, Xue; … - 2025

With the growing pressure of energy and environment accelerated by rapid economic development, the contradiction and imbalance among them and society are extremely remarkable. To balance the conflicts among energy, economy, environment and society for all-round coordinated development. This...

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Agglomeration and sorting in U.S. manufacturing

Stella, Andrea - 2025

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We'll always have Paris? : Spatial inequalities and the rise of political discontent in the metropolitan region of Paris

Fernández García, Tania; Torre, André; Rubiera … - 2025

In recent decades, developed economies have experienced a strong concentration of economic activity around their main metropolises, generating economic and social fractures between these prosperous areas and the rest of the country. Several contributions in the literature on the 'geography of...

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Explaining the relationship between the per capita availability level of services land uses and the number of Covid-19 cases in urban areas

Pourhasanzadeh, Mohammadhosein; Ahmadi, Ghader; Aram, … - 2025

Considering the crucial role played by the services land uses in cities, the provision of adequate availability of these land uses in different parts of the city and their fair distribution among different areas are important in urban planning and are considered one of the important duties in...

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Innovation capacity in urban agglomerations : the role of digital finance

Tang, Kai; Cai, Xiaopei; Wang, Haijie - 2025

Using panel data of 196 cities in 19 urban agglomerations in China from 2012 to 2021, this study analyzes the impact of digital finance on the innovation capacity of urban agglomerations and the underlying mechanisms. The level of digital finance development is measured using Peking University's...

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Integrating higher education strategies into urban cluster development : spatial agglomeration analysis of China's key regions

Hu, Yangguang; Yang, Chuang; Ma, Junfeng - 2025

As urbanization accelerates globally, higher education agglomeration (HEA) emerges as a critical mechanism for integrating regional economic theories with practical strategies, driving innovation and sustainable development. This paper examines how HEA promotes innovation, human capital...

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Invention volatility and urban systems dynamics

ÓhUallacháin, Breandán; Douma, Jacob - 2025

Large firms generate most American inventions. We know that cities are host to organizations of varying size and prevalence, but are these conditions important to urban system dynamics? This article presents volatility in patenting as a novel instrument for distinguishing between cities reliant...

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Does polycentric regional development promote economic resilience? : empirical evidence from urban agglomerations in China

Ao, Xiang; Li, Qianwen; Schwanen, Tim; Wójcik, Dariusz - 2025

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Exploring the potential of urban manufacturer's waste heat for the residential heating transition in Germany : a spatial analysis across four federal states

Angstmann, Marius; Meyer, Kerstin; Gärtner, Stefan - 2025

Urban manufacturing is increasingly discussed as a contributor to sustainable urban development, particularly through its potential to supply industrial waste heat for district heating networks (DHN). This paper examines whether urban manufacturing in Germany can provide a meaningful source of...

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Socio-demographic determinants of consumables deliveries in Montreal metropolitan area

Milord, Brigitte; Meloche, Jean-Philippe; Vaillancourt, … - 2025

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Housing market investment in peripheral areas : evidence from Italy

Pernagallo, Giuseppe; Vitali, Giampaolo - 2025

The causal relationship between living in a peripheral area and real estate investment decisions is currently unexplored in empirical literature. Using survey data on 2711 Italian respondents collected between 2022 and 2023, we show that living in a peripheral area has a negative impact on the...

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The changing role of functional urban areas in regional policy : identifying inner peripheries in the new development paradigm

Churski, Paweł; Adamiak, Czesław; Dubownik, Anna; … - 2025

The place-based approach in regional policy emphasizes the need for interventions tailored to local contexts and functional linkages. FUAs serve as essential spatial units, delineating urban-rural interactions shaped by labour markets, migration, and service accessibility. This study advocates...

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The demand and supply for theatre : a long-run analysis over the Italian regions

Castiglione, Concetta; Infante, Davide - 2025

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Locating Hispanic Americans, 1900-2020

Logan, John R.; Carlson, H. Jacob; Won, Jongho - 2025

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