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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 article, a decomposition of separate metropolitan and non-metropolitan estimates shows that differences in household attributes, particularly education and income, account for 63 percent of the current metropolitan-nonmetropolitan digital divide.
Abstract: A consistent gap exists between home Internet use in metropolitan areas and in non-metropolitan areas in the U.S. This digital divide may stem from technology differences in home Internet connectivity. Alternatively, differences in education, income, and other household attributes may explain differences in metropolitan and non-metropolitan area home Internet access. Effective programs to reduce the metropolitan-non-metropolitan digital divide must be based on an understanding of the relative roles that technology and household characteristics play in determining differential Internet usage. The household Internet adoption decision is modeled using a logit estimation approach with data from the 2001 U.S. Current Population Survey Internet and Computer Use Supplement. A decomposition of separate metropolitan and non- metropolitan area estimates shows that differences in household attributes, particularly education and income, account for 63 percent of the current metropolitan-non-metropolitan digital divide. The result raises significant doubts that policies which focus solely on infrastructure and tech- nology access will mitigate the current metropolitan-non-metropolitan digital divide.

119 citations

Book
12 Nov 1996
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the adaptation of traditional units of government to the ideals and demands of the changing world along the metropolitan fringe and show how these post-suburban municipalities had to fashion a government that perpetuated the ideals of small-scale village life and yet, at the same time, provided for a large tax base to pay for needed municipal services.
Abstract: The years shortly after the end of World War II saw the beginnings of a new kind of community that blended the characteristics of suburbia with those of the central city. Over the decades these "edge cities" have become permanent features of the regional landscape. This text charts the emergence of these areas and explains why and how they developed. The book describes the adaptation of traditional units of government to the ideals and demands of the changing world along the metropolitan fringe. It shows how these post-suburban municipalities had to fashion a government that perpetuated the ideals of small-scale village life and yet, at the same time, provided for a large tax base to pay for needed municipal services. The author follows six counties that were among the pioneers of the post-suburban world: Suffolk and Nassau counties in New York; Oakland county, Michigan; DuPage county, Illinois; Saint Louis county, Missouri; and Orange County, California. Although county governments took on new co-ordinating functions, the text conlcudes, the many municipalities along the metropolitan fringe continued to retain their independence and authority. Underlying this balance of power was the persistent adherence to the long-standing suburban tradition of grassroots rule. Despite changes in the economy and appearance of the metropolitan fringe, this ideology retained its appeal among post-suburban voters, who rebelled at the prospect of thorough centralization of authority. Thus the fringe may have appeared post-suburban, but traditional suburban attitudes continued to influence the course of governmental development.

119 citations

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TL;DR: The impact of Tiebout's work and subsequent scholarship in public choice can be traced in this paper, identifying important lessons and lingering issues, and proposing that, commensurate with the growing salience of equity among the pillars of public administration, interjurisdictional spillovers and their attendant equity impacts will be the central challenge for thinkers studying metropolitan governance in the 21st century.
Abstract: More than five decades have passed since Charles Tiebout wrote his seminal 1956 paper, often cited as the classic apologetic for locally based systems of metropolitan governance. This essay traces the impact of Tiebout’s work and subsequent scholarship in public choice, identifying important lessons and lingering issues. Although public choice has demonstrated that polycentric systems are adept and flexible in producing and providing municipal services and a variety of interlocal agreements, the presence of municipal boundaries gives rise to a host of spillover problems, such as urban sprawl and segregation. These spillovers are particularly nefarious because, unlike the natural cooperation that seems to occur in service provision, municipalities tend to assert narrow self-interest in the face of these types of externalities. The essay proposes that, commensurate with the growing salience of equity among the pillars of public administration, interjurisdictional spillovers and their attendant equity impacts will be the central challenge for thinkers studying metropolitan governance in the 21st century.

119 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the cooling effect of residential areas with high vegetation cover (referred here as "green" residential) to that of small to medium size (2-40) public parks.

119 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors break with tradition and propose that satisfaction can be expressed as a unit of analysis, instead of individual satisfaction, which has traditionally been regarded as the appropriate unit.
Abstract: Students of neighborhood satisfaction have traditionally regarded the individual as the appropriate unit of analysis. In this present paper we break with tradition proposing that satisfaction can a...

118 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20232,189
20224,773
20211,006
20201,173
20191,025
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