In the late nineteenth century Chinese residents of Dihua (Urumqi), the desert capital of China’s Xinjiang Province, referred to the large, fortified gateway which separated the walled Chinese settlement from the walled Muslim settlement as the “gate which divides heaven from earth.” In so distancing themselves from their near neighbors, with whom they were inextricably linked through the econo...

The selection of urban transport projects can be viewed as a multiple criteria decision making problem (MCDM). This type of project typically has to achieve multiple targets such as economic, social, and environmental targets simultaneously; and it plays an important part in the future of the ecosystem in urban areas, and the country as a whole. The aim of this study is to propose a method for ...

Cities often experience growth either physically, by population, or by a combination of both. Urban sprawl in recent times is a subject of popular debate between policy makers and environmentalists in context of the status of urban people and the state of the human ecology. With the high pace of social and economic development resulting growth of urban population, lack of infrastructure, conges...

This emergy-based urban economic account provided a historical portrait of the urban economy and its structures to understand the overload of the biosphere`s assimilative capacity. The basic situation of the urban economy, involving the indigenous resources base, emergy consumption patterns, emergy exports and imports, were investigated, accounted and discussed. Using a series of ratios and ind...

Copyright: © 2017 INFORMS Abstract. The link between organizational structure and innovation has been a longstanding interest of organizational scholars, yet the exact nature of the relationship has not been clearly established. Drawing on the behavioral theory of the firm, we take a process view and examine how hierarchy of authority—a fundamental element of organizational structure reflecting...

The center-periphery phenomenon describes the principal spatial organization in many states, among them Israel. In terms of the nation, the center-periphery perception rests on the assumption that in every state two main domains can be identified, center and periphery, defined by a set of control-dependence relations. The center is the developed domain, which controls the entire national space,...

In light of the long-term pressure and short-term impact economic technological globalization, regional urban resilience has become an important issue in research. As a new organizational form systems, networks generated by flow space emerged as popular subject By gathering 2017 data from Baidu search index, Tencent location service, social statistics, this study constructs information, transpo...

Cities are drivers of economic development, providing infrastructure to support countless activities and services. Today, the world’s 750 biggest cities account for more than 57% of the global GDP and this number is expected to increase to 61% by 2030. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, or urban areas, and this share will continue to growth. Rapid urban growth has posed b...