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The document discusses the relationship between land use allocation and traffic flows in the Attica basin region of Greece. It analyzes recorded daily traffic counts from 1991 to identify three categories of roads based on vehicle volumes. It then uses principal component analysis to identify three main functional components of economic activities in the region: 1) functional centers and light manufacturing, 2) industrial and supplementary land uses, and 3) central business districts. The analysis finds that the allocation of these economic activity components is strongly associated with the road categories, with functional centers located along lower-volume roads, industries located along higher-volume roads, and central business districts also located along higher-volume roads. The study concludes the functional and traffic structures of the Attica basin have
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Each of these environmental problems has their genesis in the design of cities, settlement patterns and urban spatial fabric. Human habitat needs restructuring on priority so that we live within the limits imposed by our life sustaining eco-systems and follow the basic principles which promote the quality of life.To minimize the energy consumption levels and the ecological disasters caused by today’s grey cities, we have to change our perceptions, to learn and think ecologically to create green cities which are both humane and sustainable besides least consumers of energy
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Contemporary Trends for the Development of the Production Zones
The basic concept for the construction of such zones is to create conditions for concentration the existing
procedures in one place and contribute to discovering, developing and creating the new ones. Contributions are
very heterogeneous, starting from planning and development of common infrastructure to creation of the new
jobs. Except this, industrial zones promote modern entrepreneurship, which is based in a modern structure and
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increasing number of international companies working on Macedonian market, as well as the positive
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