The issue of whether firm productivity is affected by agglomeration externalities a longstanding area research. However, the appropriate geographical level to better detect effects economies and at which these work still unclear. Using detailed firm-level longitudinal data on 4927 manufacturing firms in United Kingdom over period 2008–2016, we investigate relation between microgeography externa...

Rural settlement is an important part of studying the relationship between humans and land; it highly significant in revealing evolution, driving mechanism reconstruction scheme rural pattern. In this paper, Jiangning District, a rapidly urbanized area, was selected as typical case. Using remote sensing image data, landscape pattern index, rank-scale law, local hot spot-detection model, geograp...

A variety of approaches to delineating metropolitan areas have been developed. Systematic comparisons these in terms the metro area landscape that they generate are however few. Our paper aims fill this gap. We focus on Indonesia and make use data commuting flows, spatially fine-grained population, remotely sensed nighttime lights construct using several developed literature. find maps characte...

From its early days, the World Wide Web space has demonstrated strong agglomeration trends with a very small number of web sites capturing the larger part of the Internet population. At a first glance, agglomeration over the virtual space sounds as a paradox. Web sites are numerous and highly diversified and can be easily reached from everywhere and anybody, with no particular transportation or...