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This paper outlines the trajectory of international planning and design practice in China, focusing on the post-reform era, and challenges and problems that manifested. It shows the initial focus on new concepts and material consideration of space in inviting international practice, and the recent local concerns of a more environmentally and culturally sensitive practice. The paper highlights the...
The emergence and growth of global city-regions (GCRs) or mega-city region (MCRs) around the world has become an important phenomenon. In China's Pearl River Delta, the area in the very South-East which incorporates Hong Kong and Guangzhou has seen 30 years of extremely rapid economic growth and urbanization, turning the many agglomerations into one super-large urbanized zone, a real MCR. Bit the...
The connotation of development pole of technology (DPT) indicates technology parks, science cities, technologies and the like, the paper considered the innovative circumstance is condition of DPT, and put forward the stage selected of DPT for developing countries. Finally, the paper advanced the economic policy of DPT for country development, that is, constructing pole of technology would be promote...
With the development of globalization and regionalization, the correlation among cities is growing and evolves to complicated network. This study aimed to seek the basic methodology for regional city network and reveal the unseen characteristics in the network, taken the 16 cities in Yangtze River Delta as empirical study. By calculating the economic relation matrix with city line weighted, computing...
In the new historic opportunity, it is very urgent to verify, measure and evaluate the location-specific advantages and disadvantages of embedding multi-national corporation value chain in Liaoning province objectively, by using empirical analysis method. The cluster analysis showed that Liaoning's attractive power of market capability is above the average level of the country. And the attractive...
Nowadays, with the rapid development of globalization, if a city want to be prominent in the world, it must use the tool of marketing to set up a new city image in order to enhance the competitiveness of the city. City Marketing is the method that uses marketing theory to integrate the city's political and economic resources in order to find a consistent line of development in accordance with the...
This project explores the forces of historical public policy in Houston, Texas, as it relates to the development and expansion of the Port of Houston System, the impact of that growth on the socio-economic status of surrounding neighborhoods, and the resulting land use practices in U. S. Census Tracts adjacent to the port facilities. The effects of globalization of markets, decreases in trade barriers...
The value of national brand is important in these days. Korea realizes the importance of national brand value, and tries to improve it as well. However, it is only in industry and Korea is overlooking the important of national power. This paper is suggested the reformation of cultural products design. The National Museum of Korea is a representative of Korea and the subject of this paper is limited...
In the context of economic globalization, Yangtze River Delta, Zhujiang River Delta and Fujian Northeastern Delta have taken on a development tendency of regional economic integration, participating into international labor division & cooperation and speeding up industrial structure adjustment and upgrading. Faced with the process of economic globalization, how can Jiangxi grasp the favorable...
The International Summer Engineering (ISE) Program at The Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey, is designed to leverage many unique bridging characteristics of METU and Turkey to allow US and METU engineering students to quickly strengthen their global competency skills. METU was established through a Turkish-American Cold War initiative in the late 1950's and is based on the...
Under the background of global economic crisis, more and more local governments regard city marketing as a significant mode for urban development so as to strengthen urban competitiveness for more external development resources. However, since the social economic system of China is currently in a transitional period, decentralization, marketization and globalization urge the local governments to bear...
Textile and garment industry takes an important position in Chinese national economy, and its industrial feature and market characteristics make it fit for the existence and development of small and middle enterprises. Firstly, this paper analyzed the main economic indexes of small and middle textile and garment enterprises of Henan province, secondly, studied their comparative advantages and development...
In confrontation with the temptation of assimilation of global culture, our architects either directly play a disarming role or find supports from regionalism. It is easy for us to distinguish these two extremes individual features of Chinese architecture are stepping into, which involve our blind obedience to internationalism and overindulgence in the serious degeneration of traditional value in...
Globalization is here to stay, as United Nations predicts that by 2020 four of the five largest national economies will be located in Asia. Some developing countries in South America and Eastern Europe are also expected to advance their economies rapidly in the near future. It was forecast by Goldman Sachs that the GDP of BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) will surpass that of G6 (United...
A case is presented as to why the Eskom Enterprises (EE) needs to undergo a major transformation in order to fit a systems engineering model into their business processes. An overview is given of the previous structure of the organization and the measures that have been taken so far to improve its competitive advantage in the face of globalization. According to feasibility study, there is a general...
Unquestionably in this era of globalization, human capital is one of the most valuable assets of every nation. The migration of highly skilled professional (Talent) around the world namely ldquoBrain Drainrdquo considerably affects the National Competitiveness especially in Science and Technology. Consequently, various programs have been implemented to reverse the ldquoBrain Drainrdquo into ldquoBrain...
This paper discusses the different ways of obtaining technology for the development of products made by companies in developing countries that have production units abroad. As the literature, companies hold FDI for several reasons, but there are few studies on the foreign direct investment of firms from developing countries. We believe that the acquisition of technology and make partnerships with...
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