| Наименование статьи | From Regional Science to "Smart Cities": Intellectual Legacies and Possible Ruptures |
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| Страницы | 25 |
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| Аннотация | We have entered the 21st century facing a global trend of massive urbanization leading to an
increasing concentration of population in relatively few, large cities. This exacerbates the share of GDP
produced in cities (80%). Today, more than 54% of the world population lives in a city and this number
will likely increase by the end of this century to 80%. This trend implies a redefinition of what a city, and
what an agglomeration, is. There is then no doubt that the city has become the central point in various
social sciences and that agglomeration economics have become an important topic in development
economics. Smart Cities have become in this context an important topic in Regional science and in
applied economics and geography. There is no doubt that the development of new technologies and
especially information technologies have created their own issues. Actually, Smart cities are combining
a production function and a housing and living environment one. But one can also see “Smart cities” as
a new form of the industrial district issue. Regional science has known an important development since
the late 1980 when the Marshallian concept of the “industrial district” came back to favour and became
major a topic in development studies. The turn from the “industrial district” to “smart cities” is a much
more recent one. But still in smart city studies as in industrial district ones, the same range of issues, some
of them purely economic and others more politically oriented, are at stake. |
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| Ключевые слова | regional science, smart cities, industrial district, Marshallian district, regional development, urbanization, economic polarization, transportation |
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| Журнал | Economic and social changes: facts, trends, forecast |
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| Номер выпуска | 3 |
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| Автор(ы) | Сапир Ж. |
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