China’s economic structure has made subtle changes with the development of digital economy. Along marginal diminishing effect Chinese monetary policies and increase overall leverage ratio, growth mode relying on real estate, trade infrastructure construction in past will not be sustainable next decade. This paper makes a theoretical analysis reduction search cost Also, this used empirical metho...

Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and cohesion strategies in the European Union (EU) and elsewhere in the world. However, despite the considerable funds devoted to it, its impact remains controversial. This paper revisits the question of to what extent transport infrastructure endowment – proxied by regional motorways – has contributed to regional g...

Due to climate change issues, fossil fuel depletion and increasing economic pressure, "smart" cities will have significantly altered physical, social and economic systems, built upon smart infrastructure. Key infrastructure is energy, with focus on electricity. The paradigm of physical, data transfer and information flow layers of the smart city power grid is shown. Challenges of the new urban ...

Purpose – Disasters provide physical, social, economic, political and environmental development windows of opportunity particularly through housing and infrastructure reconstruction. The reconstruction process should not be neglected due to the opportunistic nature of facilitating innovation in development. In this respect, postdisaster ‘infrastructure’ reconstruction plays a critical role in d...

Socio-economic related properties of a city grow faster than a linear relationship with the population, in a log-log plot, the so-called superlinear scaling. Conversely, the larger a city, the more efficient it is in the use of its infrastructure, leading to a sublinear scaling on these variables. In this work, we addressed a simple explanation for those scaling laws in cities based on the inte...

Western region development is fundamental to the sustainable growth of China. The rapid growth in the East and the backwardness in the West vividly demonstrate its unbalanced regional economic structure. The catching-up of the Western region constitutes a major concern for the long-term sustainable development in terms of economic growth as well as in terms of politic stability. Western region ...

Only in the context of international debate about economic development after Second World War did the term infrastructure become a label for the technical-political systems required for growth and modernity. This chapter traces the intellectual and institutional roots of the category of infrastructure in the development debates of the 1950s: its affinity with the earlier idea of social overhead...