Abstract The principle of monocentrism in building a picture the social world is opposed to polycentrism. Certain trends substantiating monocentrism, on one hand, and polycentrism, other, are considered. justification universalism—of man, human consciousness, history. In anthropology, polycentrism based idea sociocultural conditioning while philosophy history, it concept history as development ...

We propose an agent-based dynamics which leads an urban system to the standard equilibrium of the Alonso, Muth, Mills (AMM) framework. Starting for instance from a random initialization, agents move and bid for land, performing a kind of local search and finally leading the system to equilibrium rent, density and land use. Agreement with continuous analytical results is limited only by the disc...

Drawing on an in-depth analysis of eight global health networks, a recent essay in this journal argued that global health networks face four challenges to their effectiveness: problem definition, positioning, coalition-building, and governance. While sharing the argument of the essay concerned, in this commentary, we argue that these analytical concepts can be used to explicate a concept that h...

Abstract Patterns of state formation have crucial implications for comparative economic development. Diamond (1997) famously argued that “fractured land” was responsible China’s tendency toward political unification and Europe’s protracted polycentrism. We build a dynamic model with granular geographical information in terms topographical features the location productive agricultural land to qu...

With a focus on evolving governance configurations, this paper traces attempts at promoting polycentrism. The steers attention to the policy approaches that seek develop and promote polycentric urban region (PUR), whether economic system is actual now or something only faintly sketched out but aspired in future. Tracking shifts concerning perceived Glasgow–Edinburgh economy over period of two d...