Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast amenity mixes innovation districts worldwide identify the types amenities in districts. Design/methodology/approach Urban data were collected from Google Maps as 31,236 points interest (POIs) 24 compared categorised based on density diversity using correspondence analysis. An overall space was created correlation social network analys...

This paper presents a conversation between Greg Richards and Jorge Piqué on the development of creative districts their links to tourism. The discussion ranged from genesis tourism contemporary challenges placemaking. It includes consideration cultural tourism, how emerged as separate field analysis in new Millennium. As places have sought distinguish themselves an increasingly competitive glob...

The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), which was introduced in 2008 in India, is a social health insurance scheme that aims to improve healthcare access and provide financial risk protection to the poor. In this study, we analyse the determinants of participation and enrolment in the scheme at the level of districts. We used official data on RSBY enrolment, socioeconomic data from the Distr...

Globalization and the recent recession crisis are significantly challenging Italian industrial districts (IDs), driving deep transformations in their internationalization, innovation and organization strategies. With our empirical focus on a single industry (gold jewellery) and a specific country (Italy), the evidence in this paper sheds light on the differences in how three industrial district...

BACKGROUND Diarrhea is a public health menace, especially in developing countries. Knowledge of the biological and anthropogenic characteristics is abundant. However, little is known about its spatial patterns especially in developing countries like Ghana. This study aims to map and explore the spatial variation and hot-spots of district level diarrhea incidences in Ghana. METHODS Data on dis...

BACKGROUND We compared age-standardized prevalence of cigarette smoking and their income gaps at the district-level in Korea using the National Health Screening Database (NHSD) and the Community Health Survey (CHS). METHODS Between 2009 and 2014, 39,049,485 subjects participating in the NHSD and 989,292 participants in the CHS were analyzed. The age-standardized prevalence of smoking and thei...