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Several tests are conducted for the development of new accessibility measures that are shown to be based on the different industrial sectors. The different impacts exhibited by the different measures on the residential land values are also analyzed.

The companies present in the Spanish footwear industry are analyzed to determine the impact of product innovation and spatial dimension on the outsourcing decisions taken by a firm. These factors are shown to exhibit an extremely positive impact on the development of these outsourcing strategies.

Barcelona is taken as an example to determine the shift from polycentricity to scatteration that is shown to be taking place in the employment structure of the world. The employment location and density conditions of a city are shown to be highly affected by the development of employment sub-centres.

The stated preference data is employed to analyze the impact of kilometre and cordon charges on the relocation decisions that are taken by the Dutch households. The discussed decisions are shown to be completely independent of the price level of the road pricing measure.

The article presents a comparative analysis of the various urban housing reforms that are adopted in the Chinese and the European systems. The analyses demonstrate the exclusion of a large amount of urban Chinese population from the formal housing policy.

Several studies are conducted to explain the impact of housing supply on the ethnic diversity and residential segregation observed in the immigrants present in Ireland. The proportion of private rentals is shown to be the main factor that affects that the observed segregation in the country.

The data obtained from the local studies are employed to explain the perceptions of cosmopolitanism, geographical imaginaries and belonging that are exhibited by the residents of North London. The real sense of such factors is shown to be extremely unevenly accessed by the different ethnic groups residing there.

The various impacts caused by the gender, age, family and income of the neighbors on the subsequent earnings of the individuals are analyzed. The impact of neighbourhood mix is shown to be much stronger on parents and on the individuals who are not employed in any full-time job.

The concept and the benefits of the formation of extremely powerful city networks with no hierarchical domination are explained. Power is shown to be the main factor that help in retaining the bonds between cities.

Several studies are conducted to analyze the pharma-biotech complex formed by the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and financial organisations located in a few key regions. The formation of such networks is shown to be extremely beneficial for the development of the urban regions

Several data-oriented simulations are conducted to analyze the urban dynamics exhibited by the early settled countries like Europe and the newly developed ones like the United States. The various similarities that are exhibited by the growth of both the countries are also analyzed.

The article presents a new central flow theory, which helps in explaining the concept of city-ness, while supporting the already existent central place theory. The level of complexity exhibited is shown to be the main differentiating factor between the town-ness and city-ness concepts.

A cohesion index based on commuter relationships is employed to study the different factors that lead to the development of an urban area. Switzerland is taken as an example to analyze the cohesiveness exhibited between the car-based and public transport-based commuting patterns exhibited by the Swiss people.

Several studies are conducted to present a comparative analysis of the significance of distance in the social networks in the pre- and post-internet era. The internet has shown to highly affect the way people maintain their relationships in the world.

The spatial transformation related to the globalization, networking and urbanization that the world is experiencing in the 21st century is analyzed. A detailed study of the networking dynamics of the new societies without any boundaries is presented in the article.

The various trade-off benefits and drawbacks existing between the agglomeration effects and financial performance in various different large firms are analyzed. The average returns on assets of a company is shown to highly reduce with the doubling of the employment density.

The corporate location, concentration and performance of the various large company headquarters present in the Australian urban system are analyzed. The different development trajectories and levels of corporate performance exhibited by the different sectors in the country are also discussed.

The article presents a complete analysis of the different homeownership rates prevailing for different racial and ethnic groups in the US. Asians with high homeownership rates are shown to demonstrate the lowest tendency towards the formation of independent households in the country.

The development of divisions and politics in the housing consumption and tenure types in the master planned estates is analyzed. The division of renters into three different social life domains, namely aesthetics, ethics and community i s also discussed.

A telephone field experiment is conducted to analyze the ethnic and gender differences observed in the Athenian rental housing industry. Albanians are shown to face lower access to newer and repaired apartments, as compared to the Greeks.

Several analyses are conducted to present a comparative analysis of the neighborhood management observed in the urban regeneration in England and in France. The professions, occupational roles and skills in urban policy exhibited by these different settings are also discussed.

Several case studies are conducted to analyze the impact of pastoral ideology on the induction of a sense of place in the new suburban communities. The village and the surrounding rural landscape are shown to be some main factors that help in the settlement of new suburban residents.

The impact of the social context of the local micro-neighborhood and of the tracts on the neighborhood satisfaction is analyzed. The neighborhood satisfaction is shown to significantly reduce with a low socioeconomic status of the local micro-neighborhood.

The Chicago Transit authority Customer Satisfaction Survey results are employed to analyze the impact of gender differences on the safety measures taken in the train transportation. Women are shown to be affected more by the different experiences with the safety-related problems, as compared to men.

The quantile regression approach, which identifies how differently real estate prices respond to a change in one unit of housing characteristic at different quantiles, is used to estimate real estate prices in Hong Kong. The method offers a better explanation of the real-world phenomenon and a more inclusive view of the relationship between housing characteristics and prices.

The study applies a hierarchical random-coefficient mixed logit model to quantify variability in commuters' mode choice in the Chicago metropolitan area, especially with regard to the contextual variability by the traits of census tract of residence. Results show that individual mode choice behavior varies across residential locations and that contextual effects modify the marginal utility of mode choice.

The study determines the impact of airports on Italian provinces, extending Brueckner's framework to take into account selection bias caused by the location choices of airports and spatial spillover effects. Evidence suggests that the elasticity of service-sector employment to airport passengers is 0.045 and that of spillover effects due to neighboring airports is nearly 0.017.

The study compares the capitalization benefits of light-rail transit (LRT)-related accessibility and overlay zoning for single-family homes and condominiums in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona using neighborhood type. Results show impacts vary according to housing and neighborhood type, suggesting land use mix is an important factor in selecting comparable neighborhoods.

The study analyzes urban planning practices in South Yorkshire to examine how European Union strategic spatial ideas and values are reproduced, specifically how the notion of spatial justice is interpreted. It finds that policy-making at such a large scale uses a construct of polycentric urban development that reasserts a model of economic growth based on the indigenous assets held in city centers at the cost of more redistributive measures aimed at the former coal-mining communities in the sub-region.

The study investigates South Korea's homeownership policy development and identifies key reasons for the limited growth. It examines the underdevelopment of demand-side policies as the basic failure in the sustainable and equitable expansion of homeownership in the country.

All high-rise public housing developments in Chicago, USA, are being demolished with residents dispersed throughout the metropolitan area and ten new mixed-income developments created in place of the former public housing complexes. The article presents findings from in-depth interviews with residents at different income levels and tenures and examines residents' perceptions of the physical, psychological and social impacts of the mixed-income setting on their lives.

The article examines ambiguous evidence on recent population decline in large cities of Poland and the Czech Republic, with particular focus on Lodz and Brno and their inner cities. It identifies indications of inner-city repopulation and socio-demographic diversification that have not yet appeared in register or census data, suggesting a silent transformation of traditional residential patterns and neighborhoods in east central Europe.

The study examines the association between gentrification and the wider processes of social transformation in urban Britain, particularly housing market decision-making, work-life balance and gender division of labor within the household. The issue is discussed in the context of Chorlton, a southern urban suburb of Manchester.

The study investigates if the employment problems experienced by low-skilled jobseekers may be attributed partly to spatial urban factors. The hypothesis is discussed in the context of Paris' Ile-de-France metropolitan area and questions if, all other things being equal, low-skilled workers living in high-poverty neighborhoods and/or neighborhoods with low job accessibility face greater risk of long-term unemployment.

Several surveys are conducted for the refinement of the air traffic approach, which is being adopted by airlines to maintain city networks. The various attributes and relational factors of a city that lead to the volume of business exchanges of the city are also analyzed.

The various effects of the urban growth controls on the intercity commuting of workers are analyzed. The results demonstrate that the growth controls have led to a significant enhancement in the housing prices of the uncontrolled cities.

Several theoretical analyses are conducted to explain the various charges involved in the designing development planning. The various ways in which the current instrument design can be enhanced for a better infrastructure charging are also presented.

Several surveys in Spain, Mexico and the United States are conducted to explain the impact of the planning implications of different factors on gender violence. The problems faced in the elimination of structural inequalities and public and private divide in such settings are also analyzed.

A multinomial probit model is employed to explain the significance of preference formation in the auto ownership, as observed in the United States. The US residents of the transit cities who have moved from other metropolitan cities are shown to own very less number of vehicles.

The article analyzes the results of the survey conducted on the various small businesses present in the village site of the London Olympic 2012. The various visible and invisible elements present in the urban development are analyzed via the study.

The article presents a new framework, which is employed for explaining the true revelations of the hurricane, Katrina.

Various analyses are conducted to analyze the framework and the various factors that lead to the development of a city. The events that lead to various city differentiating outcomes are also discussed.

The article analyzes Latin American air transport connectivity to examine whether the growth in volume and diversity of mobility relations between cities can serve as indicators of an overlapping of urban phenomena and global processes. Results suggest that a continuation of existing Latin American structures and the emergence of new forms of dependence must be considered in the study of global relational systems.

The study provides a 'Southern' perspective on world city research in the context of the interrelations between the cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town and other African and global cities during 1994 to 2007. Evidence reveals persistent and intensifying links as well as sporadic and unstable intercity relations and suggests that leading urban areas do mix with smaller African cities in the rankings of connections with Johannesburg and Cape Town.

The study models the evolution of infrastructure networks as a preferential attachment process. The average path length and average clustering coefficient of the observed network are simulated, revealing a significant correlation with the observed European Internet infrastructure network.

The article analyzes the determinants of connectivity change in the world city network (WCN), measuring connectivity through the networked location strategies of globalized service firms. A measure of connectivity change is produced for the 2000 to 2004 period, which is then used as the dependent variable in a linear regression model that tests several hypotheses on the determinants of connectivity change.

The article reports on an analysis of the relationship between the structure of the city-to-city network of global airline passenger flows and the interstate world system. Results show some amount of convergence in the distribution of power in the world city system and suggest that the mechanism for such convergence is the upward mobility of cities located in the semi-periphery and the east Asian region.

The city explores ways in which the world city system is changing in the context of globalization, using data on the locations of the world's 500 largest multinational companies. Evidence suggests that the world city system is undergoing significant restructuring in ways that concentrate power in a few cities, but does not support the notion that globalization is creating a geography of inequality in intercity relations.