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Metropolitan area
About: Metropolitan area is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 26029 publications have been published within this topic receiving 385648 citations. The topic is also known as: metro & metro area.
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TL;DR: In this paper, home range is found to be smaller in the city, in lower social classes, and in the suburbs only for girls and younger teenagers, and some findings indicate that home range may be related to use and knowledge of the environment.
Abstract: In this study of a sample of 148 teenagers from metropolitan Toronto, home range is found to be smaller in the city, in lower social classes, and-in the suburbs only-for girls and younger teenagers. Home range is the spatial manifestation of exploring the "fourth environment," which is globally defined as the environment outside the home, playground, and specifically child-oriented institutions. The significance of this fourth environment in the process of growing up is discussed, and some findings are presented that indicate that home range may be related to use and knowledge of the environment. It is suggested that the local neighbor-hood continues to be an important developmental context for young people, and common interests of other population groups are recognized as enhancing the potential for planning that is responsive to children's needs.
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TL;DR: The obtained results suggest that “compact” urban form may contribute to the reduction of electricity demand from the residential sector, but PV-supply under the scenario may also be reduced because of the decreased share of detached houses, and it is important to discuss the effective use of vacant areas in suburbs.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the prospects for a socio-technical transition of key urban infrastructure systems, such as energy, water, waste, transport, communications and buildings, as a basis for winding back unsustainable levels of consumption while maintaining liveability.
Abstract: Australian cities rate high internationally on liveability and well-being indices. State and metropolitan governments are keen to promote the liveability of their cities as a means of attracting mobile capital, skilled labor, and tourists. An examination of the liveability-environmental sustainability nexus, however, suggests that Australia's capital cities have gained their high liveability ratings as a result of having inputs of high, and now unsustainable, levels of resource consumption—indirectly into their built environments and directly into their households. This paper explores the prospects for a socio-technical transition of key urban infrastructure systems—energy, water, waste, transport, communications and buildings—as a basis for winding back unsustainable levels of consumption while maintaining liveability.
127 citations
TL;DR: The results show that the use of illegal substances such as cannabis, ecstasy, amphetamines and cocaine is relatively widespread in the examined techno party scenes.
Abstract: In 1998, a total of 3,503 visitors of techno parties in Amsterdam, Berlin, Madrid, Prague, Rome, Vienna and Zurich were interviewed. With this data, a subtly differentiated portrait of the techno part
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine urban vegetable gardens in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona (MRB) in the context of a political ecological approach, arguing that these gardens provide an interesting example of how the urbanization process creates particular "socionatures" linked in this case to retired members of the working class who occupy (often as squatters) and transform the interstices left by the expanding city in order to produce food at a small scale.
127 citations