Perth as a 'big' city: Reflections on urban growth

The bigness of cities has attracted much attention from urban academics and professionals whose perspective may be divided into two camps: productive science using agglomeration-based analysis or impact science using anxiety-based analysis. The two approaches need to be joined in order to resolve is...

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Main Author: Newman, Peter
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49815
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description The bigness of cities has attracted much attention from urban academics and professionals whose perspective may be divided into two camps: productive science using agglomeration-based analysis or impact science using anxiety-based analysis. The two approaches need to be joined in order to resolve issues of urban 'bigness', and in this article the growth of Perth is used to illustrate the potential and challenges of this integration.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-498152017-09-13T15:40:42Z Perth as a 'big' city: Reflections on urban growth Newman, Peter The bigness of cities has attracted much attention from urban academics and professionals whose perspective may be divided into two camps: productive science using agglomeration-based analysis or impact science using anxiety-based analysis. The two approaches need to be joined in order to resolve issues of urban 'bigness', and in this article the growth of Perth is used to illustrate the potential and challenges of this integration. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49815 10.1177/0725513616657906 restricted
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Perth as a 'big' city: Reflections on urban growth
title Perth as a 'big' city: Reflections on urban growth
title_full Perth as a 'big' city: Reflections on urban growth
title_fullStr Perth as a 'big' city: Reflections on urban growth
title_full_unstemmed Perth as a 'big' city: Reflections on urban growth
title_short Perth as a 'big' city: Reflections on urban growth
title_sort perth as a 'big' city: reflections on urban growth
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49815