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The Rise of Megaregions: Delineating a new scale of economic geography

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  • Daniela Glocker

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The concept of megaregions is increasingly put forward among academics and policy makers as a new scale of economic co-ordination and social organisation. A megaregion is most commonly understood as an economic unit that comprises an agglomeration of cities and its less dense hinterlands, which are linked through infrastructure, economic connections, settlement patterns and land use, topography, an environmental system or a shared culture and history that together shape a common interest for the wider region. While there is an extensive literature on the potential benefits of a megaregion, work has been more limited in terms of identifying megaregions in an international context. This paper introduces an approach to delineate potential megaregions in the OECD.

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  • Daniela Glocker, 2018. "The Rise of Megaregions: Delineating a new scale of economic geography," OECD Regional Development Working Papers 2018/04, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:govaab:2018/04-en
    DOI: 10.1787/f4734bdd-en
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    1. K. G. Sorokozherdyev & K. A. Khodosov, 2020. "The Influence of the Regional Sectoral Structure on the Socio-Economic Development of Primorye Region," Journal of Applied Economic Research, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University, vol. 19(1), pages 60-78.

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    Keywords

    mean-shift algorithm; Megaregions; new economic geography; urban geography;
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    JEL classification:

    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • R10 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - General
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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