THE CITY IN REGIONAL SCIENCE
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THE CITY IN REGIONAL SCIENCE
Dani SheferTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology
International Workshop
Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
August 28-30, 2016
An overview
Regional Science – deals with analytical approaches to
problems that are concerned with Regional, Urban, or
rural issues.
The Trend over the last 65 years
The evolution of the focal point shifted from problems
concerning primarily the Location of Industries
focusing on minimizing transport cost. (Isard, 1956)
Moving-on to the problem of HH location within the
city (Alonso, 1964)
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• Environmental problems – pollution, exhaustible
natural resources etc.
• Transportation – efficient accessibility
• Migration
• Income inequality
• Economic Efficiency
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• Innovations and Technological Change
• Cultural and environmental amenities
• Well being – quality of life
• Accessibility and opportunities
• Social Services – education and health
• Infrastructure
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Moving from an era of physical networks to an
era of social networks (ICT-Information, and
Communication Technologies)
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World’s Urban Population
1950 746 million
2014 3.9 billion (54% of the world's pop.)
(5.2 times fold)
Forecast
2030 5.0 billion
2050 6.5 billion (66% of the world's pop.)
In 35 years a huge increase of 2.5 billion additional urban population
Source: World Urbanization Prospects (2014 Revision) United Nations
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MEGA-CITIES* (2014)
Tokyo 38 million
Delhi 25 million
Mexico City 21 million
Mumbai 21 million
Sao Paulo 21 million
Osaka 20 million
Beijing 21 million
New York 18.5 million
Source: World Urbanization Prospects (2014 Revision) United Nation8
Major Urban Problems – The Challenges
• Housing (affordable)
• Transportation (mobility) alternative public
transportation modes – Subways, Light rail, BRT, Buses
• Pollution abatements from motor vehicles
• Employment opportunities for unskilled, skilled, and
highly skilled labor force (job training programs etc.)
• Income inequality – within and between cities
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• Migration (inter and intra-country)
• Education (opportunities)
• Health Care (accessibility)
• Infrastructure (energy, water, Sanitation - sewage)
• Formulating equitable and sustainable urban
development programs10
Conclusion
• Our research effort focuses primarily on measuring phenomena with some explanations
• It is high time to put greater emphasis on formulating urban development policies that will help resolve some of these problems
• Clearly urban development policies by and large are not universal. They are region-specific (European, African, Latin America etc.) country-specific and also city-specific.
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THANK YOU
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