This paper makes an initial contribution towards building a polycentricity index to account for the governing of social–ecological systems. It develops three indices and an overall index, using an ...

The evolution of polycentric metropolitan areas is one of the most incisive structural changes of the past 30 years. The current decentralized structure of metropolitan areas in western industrialized ...

Polycentricity is often used descriptively with regard to a regional system of settlements, usually referred to as a polycentric urban region (PUR). Although presented in much of the literature as in ...

The analysis and discussions herein suggest that the governance of the MRG is a predominantly monocentric governing system with elements of polycentricity. They also suggest that polycentricity in ...

Polycentricity refers to the existence of multiple sources of competing power and influence, rather than just one seat of power at the center, or the top, of society. In the United States, the ...

In our recent work, we developed new ways of measuring polycentricity. We applied these to Journey to Work data from the 2016 Census to test how consistent the current centricity patterns of ...

Beyond Polycentricity These are not new concepts, despite the continuing tendency to imagine the city as a monocentric organism where everyone works in downtown skyscrapers and lives in suburban ...

The problem with judicial populism and the idea of polycentricity Problem of judicial populism is not about direction of populist policies, but about locus of authority Dr Raza Saeed February 02, 2019 ...