The Impact of Odessa Sea Port on Agglomeration Tendencies in the City

The Impact of Odessa Sea Port on Agglomeration Tendencies in the City  by Valeriia Sehstak “The port is itself an existence of Odessa” Lanzheron A. (1763-1831) - former governor of Odessa, made the port of Odessa a free port (selling and storing imported goods with no customs duties) in 1819The port of Odessa is one of the largest sea ports on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. It is considered to be the biggest passenger port on the...

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Budapest: Central and Eastern Europe’s innovation hub?

Budapest: Central and Eastern Europe’s innovation hub? by Péter Csárdás             A number of books and scientific articles deal with the evolution and functioning mechanism of clusters, but they fail to give a general definition which encompasses all aspects of these unique institutions. They agree however that a cluster is a great number of actors which operate closely together which...

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Kosovo Albania - Highway of Nation

Kosovo Albania - Highway of Nation by Vahidin Nurshaba As of 2007 Republic of Albania, and then in 2010 Republic of Kosovo, have started the largest project in the last decade in road building across the Balkan countries, respectively the highway between Kosovo and Albania. The Albania’s part of the highway is known as “Rruga e Kombit” (Highway of the Nation), and in the part of Kosovo it is named after its first president since declaring its...

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British colonial heritage and modern railway development in Africa

British colonial heritage and modern railway development in Africa by Gabor Gyurko, 'Few countries have ever industrialised […] in which entrepreneurs have been unable to corrupt the state, exploiting taxpayers and consumers far beyond the limits set by proper tolerance […]’ (Clive Dewey on imperial Britain’s ‘new industrial policy’) Beyond military power and economic might, roads have shaped the outreach of empires throughout human...

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Building physical infrastructure in Singapore-first step towards agglomeration

Building physical infrastructure in Singapore-first step towards agglomeration by Ivan Vovkanych Singapore 40 years ago was a poor in all aspects area. In 1971 the strategic development plan was first introduced by the government. The reforms in housing, government expenditure, economic and infrastructure areas have been introduced. Now Singapore is a thriving city and an international business center. So what exactly Singapore government did...

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Count István Széchenyi and the Chain Bridge

Count István Széchenyi and the Chain Bridge by Luca Drucker The construction Chain Bridge as the first permanent bridge between Pest and Buda caused the reduction of transport costs and helped Pest-Buda become the kind of centre Count Széchenyi dreamed of. If we hear the name of Count István Széchenyi we can recall a bunch of reforms he made in the Hungary of Reform Era: the foundation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Trade...

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Traffic Jams in Dar es Salaam city: Blowing away benefits of agglomeration

Traffic Jams in Dar es Salaam city: Blowing away benefits of agglomeration By Elly Chuma Dar es Salaam, the nucleus of Tanzanian economy, is the fastest growing city in East Africa. Prospect of good life beckons and attracts all classes and types of people in Tanzania; at the same time becomes the famous for traffic jams which are eating up the benefits of agglomeration economies. Like other cities Dar es Salaam agglomeration is not an accident episode, since the city located on a natural harbour on the Indian Ocean which serves almost 90 percent of all imports. This harbour is the heart of the Tanzanian transportation system as all of the...

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Standard but Poor: Understanding Northwestern Bulgaria

Standard but Poor: Understanding Northwestern Bulgaria by Kristina Georgieva Since August 2012, people in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, have been riding on one of the sexiest metro lines on the Old Continent. It is fast, it is arty, it is fancy, and it is the pride and joy of the ruling party Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria. Ironically, less than 100km north, you can find a rather underdeveloped region; in fact, the poorest in...

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Silicon Valley à la française: Paris-Saclay

Silicon Valley à la française: Paris-Saclay by Krisztina Horváth  The case of Silicone Valley is probably the most iconic example of a so called innovation cluster, the notion that is commonly used to describe a group of densely linked organizations in the field of Research and Development that in some way benefit from the presence of each other. Due to many other similar success stories, the study of clusters became a center of interest...

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Agglomeration in Dhaka: How does Read Made Garment (RMG) industry make Dhaka the fastest growing city of the world?

Agglomeration in Dhaka: How does Read Made Garment (RMG) industry make Dhaka the fastest growing city of the world? by Md Masud Karim In a sunny day of last summer, I was shopping with my German friend in one outlet of H&M in Budapest and suddenly she shouted “Oh My God! This T-shirt is too cheap! Masud, you see it is from your country”.  There is no doubt that the magical role of Ready Made Garment (RMG) industry in the agglomeration...

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Slavutych: the Future of the Chernobyl Survivors’ Shelter

Slavutych: the Future of the Chernobyl Survivors’ Shelter by Anastasiia Polner What associations do you have when you hear the name – Slavutych? Slavutych is a city in Kyiv oblast, Ukraine, the population of which is 24 500 people – this information pops up in the first lines of the Wikipedia article. Nevertheless, the important facts are different. Slavutych is situated only 50 kilometers away from the ill-fated Chernobyl Nuclear...

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