This study investigates how a city’s innovation capacity could be influenced by its polycentric urban structure. Drawing upon panel data set containing 267 Chinese cities at the prefecture level and above from 2006 to 2016, using an instrumental variables approach, we reveal significant negative causal relationship between polycentricity capacity. We further discuss mechanisms of agglomeration ...

This article explores six craft-based urban social innovation initiatives implemented in Venice between 2014 and 2021, considered decisive for the candidature of city New European Bauhaus programme. Adopting a qualitative approach based on multiple case study methods, it reconstructs how promotion traditional craft enterprises entered local policy agenda through mechanisms that strengthen embed...

There is increasing interest in natural flood management (NFM) and the delivery of public environmental goods. Yet implementation NFM can be ad-hoc regionally diverse. Communities often play a role thus we assess governance UK communities' position within it. We develop theoretical framework using concepts goods, social capital, collective action polycentrism use it to examine design Pickering ...

Understanding the characteristics that shape mobility could help to achieve more sustainable transport systems. A considerable body of scientific studies tries determine these at urban level. However, there is a lack analyzing those factors for heterogeneous zones existing in suburbs big cities. The study presented this paper intends fill gap, context two metropolitan corridors Madrid Region. C...