Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the importance of conversing within cities, organizations and beyond, in order to adapt to the rapidly changing environment and promote co-operation, participation and with special reference to European cities. Design/methodology/approach – This paper brings examples and case studies of how the concepts of conversing cities has been and is being...

Diversity in lifestyles and socioeconomic status among European populations, and recent socio-political and economic changes in transitional countries, may affect changes in adiposity. We aimed to determine whether change in the prevalence of obesity varies between the socio-politically transitional North-East European (Łódź, Poland; Szeged, Hungary; Tartu, Estonia), and the non-transitional Me...

Cities can be viewed as information architecture systems. Here, ‘architecture’ is used in the sense of computer architecture – it refers not to the design of buildings, but to how the components of a complex system interact. Information exchange includes the movement of people and goods, personal contact and interactions, telecommunications, as well as visual input from the environment. Informa...

This article contributes to the development of concept second-tier cities. In this study, it is proposed identify cities based on performance indicator creative industries. To do this, DEA industries calculated for full list in Kemerovo, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Tomsk Oblasts, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, and Altai Krai, its clustering carried out using t-SNE machine learning method (t-distri...

The development of tourism is based on flow and studying a network can help to elucidate its mechanism operation. Transportation the path realize spatial displacement flow. This study used “Tencent migration” big data explore distribution characteristics rules in China, providing suggestions for tourism. results demonstrate that 361 cities studied be divided into three types: destination-orient...

Urban economics has traditionally viewed cities as having advantages in production and disadvantages in consumption. We argue that the role of urban density in facilitating consumption is extremely important and understudied. As firms become more mobile, the success of cities hinges more and more on cities' role as centers of consumption. Empirically, we find that high amenity cities have grown...

In the context of global environmental changes, frequency various disasters and extreme events is increasing, enhancing urban resilience has become an important guide for current development. Previous studies have mainly focused on changes in resilience, with less consideration impact spatial spillover effects resilience. Therefore, this paper aims to analyze temporal evolution its Guangdong fr...

Spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) are fundamental to enabling informed decisionmaking across a variety of industries and sectors but has primary relevance for managing land and land-related resources. Given the primacy of cities in meeting future sustainable development goals, SDIs are increasingly prominent in supporting the identification and management of urban-related issues such as water...

Unsustainable development paths have reached critical levels in Europe. In recent years, cities, urbanization has been contributing to the intensification of urban heat islands. To analyze surface islands (SUHI) Europe last few present study combines land temperature (LST) from MODIS with classes CORINE cover data within 617 functional areas (FUAs). Urban and industrial uses significantly highe...

We use large survey data sets of firms provided by the World Bank for China, India, and Brazil—Investment Climate Surveys—to address the important question: what determines the locational choice of firms among cities in these countries. We find that capital cities in all countries are attractive for firms to locate. In India and China, labour-intensive firms tend not to locate in mid-sized or l...