Can polycentric urban development simultaneously achieve both economic growth and regional equity? A multi-scale analysis of German regions

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Conference presentation · 7th Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG), Clark University, Worcester, MA

Polycentric development narrows regional disparities but does not simultaneously raise economic productivity: the gains of the peripheries are cancelled out by the losses of the urban cores.

Published in Environment and Planning A (2023). See the paper.