Urban Success and Urban Adaptation Over the Long Run

The New Urban Success: How Culture Pays

Urban economists have put forward the idea that cities that are culturally interesting tend to attract “the creative class” and, as a result, end up being economically successful. Yet it is still unclear how economic and cultural dynamics mutually influence each other. By contrast, that has been extensively studied in the case of individuals. Over decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu...

The Short and Long Run Causality between Agglomeration and Productivity

This study is to investigate the short- and long-run causal relationship between agglomeration (localization and urbanization) economies and labor productivity in the manufacturing sector of 28 Iranian provinces over an 11-year period, 2001–2011. Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS) method was used to estimate our long-run panel data model. The empirical findings suggested that localiz...

Evaluate the Theory of Urban Villages and the Adaptation Rate of it with Alexander’s Pattern Language

The Long Run, Dynamic Impacts of Technology Spillovers and Amenities on Rural- Urban Migration Behavior

In this paper a two period overlapping generation model with an urban and rural region is developed where the number of high skill individuals working in each region is determined endogenously. The basic model is modified to examine how migration behavior reacts to: 1) a knowledge externality introduced in the urban employment sector; and 2) introduction of rural amenities and the effect of an ...

Modulating Urban Atmospheres: Opportunity, Flow, and Adaptation

Conceptions of the city as a multi-layered service infrastructure have been reflected in past visions of the city, such as in the work of Archigram and that of Situationism. The core idea has been readily applied to experimental and commercial developments related to mobile technology, and has resulted in a spectrum of applications that have achieved varying degrees of relevance to the ways in ...