Urban Economic Structure and the Optimal Rail System

Urban Studies ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 623-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham R. Crampton
Keyword(s):  
Economic Structure ◽  
Urban Economic ◽  
Rail System

scholarly journals Inferring Networks of Interdependent Labor Skills to Illuminate Urban Economic Structure

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 1078
Author(s):  
Shade T. Shutters ◽  
Keith Waters
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Urban Economic ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Labor Skills ◽  
The Web

Cities are among the best examples of complex systems. The adaptive components of a city, such as its people, firms, institutions, and physical structures, form intricate and often non-intuitive interdependencies with one another. These interdependencies can be quantified and represented as links of a network that give visibility to otherwise cryptic structural elements of urban systems. Here, we use aspects of information theory to elucidate the interdependence network among labor skills, illuminating parts of the hidden economic structure of cities. Using pairwise interdependencies we compute an aggregate, skills-based measure of system “tightness” of a city’s labor force, capturing the degree of integration or internal connectedness of a city’s economy. We find that urban economies with higher tightness tend to be more productive in terms of higher GDP per capita. However, related work has shown that cities with higher system tightness are also more negatively affected by shocks. Thus, our skills-based metric may offer additional insights into a city’s resilience. Finally, we demonstrate how viewing the web of interdependent skills as a weighted network can lead to additional insights about cities and their economies.

scholarly journals Urban crisis: ‘Limits to governance of alienation’

Urban Studies ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (9) ◽  
pp. 2056-2071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ ◽  
Mehmet Penpecioğlu
Keyword(s):  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Political System ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Accumulation Process ◽  
Urban Crisis ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Urban Economic ◽  
Comparative Framework ◽  
Universal Mechanism ◽  
Roll Out

This article aims to develop a comparative framework of analysis to study urban crises, arguing that there is a need to establish the analytical links between ‘everyday life and systemic trends and struggles’, and thus to tie together the insights produced by ‘particularistic accounts’. It examines urban crises as political phenomena and brings the Marxist notion of ‘alienation’ to the centre of attention. We argue that ‘alienation’ – as a universal mechanism facilitating capital accumulation process via dispossession, and as negative mental/emotional implications of dispossession, is useful to establish those analytical links. We identify two domains, urban economic structure and urban political system, where alienation is contained. Public authorities deploy various containment strategies in these domains to govern alienation, and urban crises occur when these strategies fail. The post-2008 wave of urban upheavals could be explained by the failure of roll-out neoliberal strategies, which constitute the basis of our comparative framework.

KAMPÜS İÇİ ULAŞIMDA ALTERNATİF SEÇİMLER: KARABÜK ÜNİVERSİTESİ ÖRNEĞİ

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rukiye Tekin ◽  
Metin Kılıç
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
City Image ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Effective Administration ◽  
Demographic Features

The contribution of universities to economic structure, social and physical insfrastructure, the quality of life and city, and the level of education cannot be regarded. Therefore, it should be provided that university campuses should be areas which reflect city image with their physical structures. In this regard, the effective administration, usage, and development of universities, and the coordination between the units of universities should also be provided. One of the most significant elements of this coordination and cooperation is on campus transportation. One of the main purposes of the thesis is to evaluate inner campus transportation which is the sub-unit of city transportation. Other purposes are to determine the reasons of the perception of the users in reference to their demographic features on campus transportation and the reasons of their preferences of a particular transportation option. A survey study has been conducted in order to measure inner campus transportation perceptions. In this regard, 1112 questionnaire forms have been analysed by the software programme of SPSS. Expression analysis of the reliability, frequency distribution and factors are obtained, and differences were identified by ANOVA and T-TEST analysis.

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