Nowhere does the cosmopolitan character of a city as a node in an international network of cities stand so clearly in contrast to its role as the center of a territorial economy as with Milan. Located in the ‘city studded center’ of Europe, to use Rokkan’s (1975: 576) evocative phrase, Milan has always been embroiled in the ‘entanglements of European cities and states’ (Tilly, 1994). For centur...

[1] The northwest Argentine Andes constitute a premier natural laboratory to assess the complex interactions between isolated uplifts, orographic precipitation gradients, and related erosion and sedimentation patterns. Here we present new stratigraphic observations and age information from intermontane basin sediments to elucidate the Neogene to Quaternary shortening history and associated sedi...

abstract this study is an attempt to investigate functions of abhar city as a medium sized city in zanjan province spatial development structure. the method of this study is descriptive-analytical. some quantity models and methods are used in study of the role of this city and its hinterland. the economical models represent that, this city has basic conditions in the second and third economical...

cities have hinterlands which depend on various factors such as economic power, population, distance and etc. tehran megalopolis has also numerous hinterlands .tehran as the capital city of the country is considered at the top of urban system hierarchy and has a very special place from economic, political, educational and etc. points of view. all these abilities cause a daily stream of people f...

This paper calculates the CO2 emissions for port-hinterland container transport system and proposes possible emission reduction measures. considers Dhaka–Chittagong in Bangladesh. The represents 70% of total international maritime containerised trade, including more than 2.0 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) per year. By implementing different scenarios using a simulation approach, th...