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The metropolis in retrospect : from the trading metropolis to the global metropolis.
2005
SummaryMetropolization is not a new phenomenon: metropolises have been around for centuries. The prime and permanent function of a metropolis is the coordination of economic activities at a world scale. This function has been applied to different activities in history, depending on technological conditions and economic organization, and consequently it generated different forms of metropolises. The resulting continuities and discontinuities in the metropolises' evolution can be understood in terms of agglomeration economies. In the pre-industrial period, the trading metropolis coordinates long range trade. The industrial revolutions generate new needs for coordination of production and give…
Metropolises stability vs. change
2003
In everyday language and even in some scientific work, the term “metropolis” evokes nothing more than a very large city, a focus for all that is good — and bad — about urban life. The vast literature on metropolises and metropolization, especially in Europe over the last 20 years, shows that things are anything but straightforward. Population alone is probably not a necessary condition and obviously not a sufficient condition to characterize a metropolis. Somany phenomena are associated with this term that, like Lacour (1999), we may wonder whether this diversity is evidence of just how rich or just how poor the concept is. Producing a meaningful definition is indeed a challenge (...)
Interactions, spillovers de connaissance et croissance des économies modernes. Faut-il préférer la globalisation ou la proximité géographique ?
2009
Globalisation and metropolisation in modern economies induce some locational strategies of knowledge based activities towards cities and deeply increase trade and move of ideas across cities. In that context, we study the way knowledge spillovers have influenced the economic growth of 82 European Metropolises over the 1990-2005 period. We model knowledge spillovers across cities according to three specific interaction patterns depending either on geography or on global advanced services or thought a combination of these patterns. We show that the mixed pattern matters the best for economic growth of cities in Europe.
Rozwój miast metropolitalnych Polski w kontekście rozwoju zrównoważonego
2020
Celem artykułu jest określenie poziomu rozwoju zrównoważonego miast metropolitalnych w Polsce w ramach trzech podstawowych wymiarów tego zjawiska. W analizie uwzględniono wymiar społeczny (w tym instytucjonalny), gospodarczy i środowiskowo-przestrzenny. Zastosowano metodę taksonomiczną, pozwalającą na porządkowanie badanych jednostek terytorialnych w sposób zhierarchizowany. Określono poziomy ich rozwoju w poszczególnych wymiarach z uwzględnieniem struktury cech, które je opisują. Zidentyfikowanie struktury cech pozwala na określenie, w jakiej odległości od idealnej struktury tych cech są badane miasta. Badania przeprowadzono w ujęciu dynamicznym, analizując cztery wybrane okresy czasowe (2…