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T. R. Lakshmanan
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The Rise of the Knowledge Economy in the Megalopolis
This chapter described the evolution of the Megalopolis, the region of continuous urban development that stretches along the US East Coast from Boston Metropolitan Region in the North to the Washington DC Metropo...
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Rise of Megalopolis as a Mega Knowledge Region: Interactions of Innovations in Transport, Information, Production, and Organizations
This chapter argues that the passage of the Megalopolis from a declining industrial economy to a Mega Knowledge Region in the last three decades has been made possible by a four-part ‘Knowledge Infrastructure’: T...
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The Fashioning of Dynamic Competitive Advantage of Entrepreneurial Cities: Role of Social and Political Entrepreneurship
There has been a major change, over the last three decades, in the functions, policy mechanisms, and the spatial forms of many urban regions in the highly industrialized countries in North America and Europe. ...
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Traffic Safety and the Demographic Transition
Transportation crashes have major adverse consequences for society, entailing huge medical, property, and social costs. The devastating impacts of disabling injuries on the affected individuals and their famili.....
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Transportation in Knowledge Society
The history of transportation is one ever increasing speed, comfort, convenience, safety, reliability, and continuously drop** costs of travel. Most people attribute this historical progression of transporta...
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The Changing Context of Transportation Modeling: Implications of the New Economy, Intermodalism and the Drive for Environmental Quality
Over the last decade and a half, there has been a dramatic transformation of the environment in which transport infrastructure planning takes place. This transformation derives from three developments which ha...
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Full Benefits and Costs of Transportation: Review and Prospects
Since transportation is a part of every good and service produced in the economy, the transportation system in an affluent and highly industrialized economy is a very large enterprise. In the U.S., the transpo...
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The Evolution of Transport Safety in the US
While transportation in the US provides the highest level of mobility in the world, it does create a set of unintended consequences. A major such consequence derives from the 6.5 million transportation acciden...
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State Market Networks in Japan: The Case of Industrial Policy
Private enterprises and Governments have both played key roles throughout history in the creation of national wealth. In the last two or three centuries business interests in the West have become progressively...
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Martin J. Beckmann: A Retrospective
Martin J. Beckmann’s contributions to Regional Science span four decades since he arrived at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago. Over this period, his prodigious resea...
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The State and the Market in Japanese Development
Technological progress both induces and is induced by pervasive social change. It represents not only a transformation in the material, structural, and cultural conditions of a society but is made possible by ...
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Social change induced by technology: promotion and resistance
Technological progress, offering on increase in output which is not commensurate with the increase in the costs necessary to generate it, is in the form of that rare thing in the economist’s lexicon — a ‘free ...
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Technological and Institutional Innovations in the Service Sector
A structural transformation has been underway over several decades in the industrialized affluent economies. The provision of services has replaced the production of goods as the predominant economic activity....
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Technical Change, Employment and Metropolitan Adjustment
A remarkable restructuring of metropolitan space is underway in the industrialised countries. After two decades of rapid overall growth and peripheral expansion, the metropolitan areas are undergoing a transfo...
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Regional-National Linkages in Multiregional Models: Alternative Perspectives
A variety of emerging policy issues in North America and elsewhere in the affluent economies underlies the current interest in multiregional modelling. These policy issues pertain to the need for revitalisatio...
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Introduction
This publication is concerned with two major current debates in public policy in all affluent societies. One is the widespread concern with the quality of the natural environment—the quality of air, water, lan...
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Integrated Models for Economic-Energy-Environmental Impact Analysis
The last decade has witnessed a growing concern with the adequacy of energy resources and with the quality of the physical environment. This concern stems from such factors as the unrelenting growth of energy ...
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A Market Potential Model and its Application to Planning Regional Shop** Centers
Development and application of a market potential model which identifies the scale, composition, location and timing of a number of large retail centers consistent with urban growth processes.
