historic cities contain an old urban structure, which have been formed over time, based on the city’s identity features and have emanated in the form of historical relations and elements; therefore the quality of interventions took place in these contexts couldn’t be ignored. tabriz is one of iran’s most important historic cities that its structural identity has changed throughout history due t...

There is a well established correlation between initial entrepreneurship and subsequent employment growth across metropolitan areas. This relationship is true when modelling entrepreneurship through average establishment size or through the prevalence of startups; the relationship also holds at the industry level within cities. These patterns are often taken as evidence that entrepreneurship pr...

This paper views that destination brand as a holistic brand conception, and uses the attributes-based perceptual map technique to describe the static meaning of the positioning conception. With a case study of Shaoxing City in China, two main attributes historical culture and comprehensive function in local university students’ perception are achieved, and Shaoxing’s local university students’ ...

Abstract. Through a (re)mapping and spatial modeling of city’s past, exploratory web applications can be built to examine urban histories dynamically engage scholars the public. Working on Emory University’s OpenWorld Atlanta project (OWA), researchers used geospatial technologies methods extract data from archives other sources build historical models, geodatabases, geocoders that enabled deve...

One of the most striking feature of the space-economy is that cities form a hierarchical system exhibiting some regularity in terms of their size and the array of goods they supply. In order to show how such a hierarchical system may emerge, we consider a model with monopolistically competitive markets for the industrial sectors. As transport costs steadily decrease from large values, the urban...