Growing importance has been attached to the concept of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EE)
as productive structures that encompass complex sets of interaction driving economic …

This paper presents a novel method to delineate metropolitan areas–or functional urban
areas (FUAs)–in the entire world and assesses their population trends. According to the …

International experience shows that the urbanization rate between 30% and 70% is a stage
of rapid urban development, which means that more people in China will enter cities in the …

What is a city? Researchers use different criteria and datasets to define it—from population
density to traffic flows. We argue there is one dataset that could serve as a proxy of the …

This paper introduces an internationally consistent definition of metropolitan areas to the
literature regarding the remote sensing of urban land use or land cover. In the cross …

The problem associated with a city's administrative boundary being “under-” or “over-
bounded” has become a global phenomenon. A city's administrative boundary city does not …

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The definition and boundaries of cities often determine how research is undertaken due to
the areal units used to provide geo-located data and thus affect the research findings …

We propose a methodology for identifying urban areas that combines subjective
assessments with machine learning, and we apply it to India, a country where several …

The delimitation of functional spatial units or functional territories is an important topic in
regional science and economic geography, since the empirical verification of many causal …