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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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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, Hamnett and Freestone discuss the development of metropolitan planning in nineteenth-century Australia, from theory to practice: the interwar yearsAlan Hutchings, Renate Howe, and Margo Huxley, and the late 1990s: competitive versus sustainable cities.
Abstract: FiguresTablesContributorsIntroduction - Stephen Hamnett and Robert Freestone1 Founding cities in nineteenth-century AustraliaHelen Proudfoot2 From city improvement to the city beautifulRobert Freestone3 Towards metropolitan organisation: town planning and the garden city ideaChristine Garnaut4 From theory to practice: the inter-war yearsAlan Hutchings5 A new paradigm: planning and reconstruction in the 1940sRenate Howe6 The post-war cityIan Alexander7 The corridor city: planning for growth in the 1960sIan Morison8 Administrative coordination, urban management and strategic planning in the 1970sMargo Huxley9 The revival of metropolitan planningMichael Lennon10 The late 1990s: competitive versus sustainable citiesStephen HamnettNotesIndex
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TL;DR: In this article, a new urban policy agenda is singularly framed in a language of competitiveness, improved efficiency, flexibility, entrepreneurship, partnership and collaborative advantage that underwrite the remaking of planning objectives, functions and instruments.
Abstract: Since the mid 1980s, European cities and regions have become increasingly concerned with competitive restructuring and economic growth. This concern goes hand in hand with a rediscovery of the central role of cities in the performance of regional and national economies as a whole. But, in a context of radical transformation of production and demand conditions globally, the performance of cities is mediated by their capacity to lead a process of competitive redevelopment. To meet the challenges posed by the changing global competitive climate, the policy agenda of many cities has been drastically reorganized. On the one hand, the search for growth has transformed urban revitalization in one of the main domains of urban intervention. On the other, the new urban policy agenda is singularly framed in a language of competitiveness, improved efficiency, flexibility, entrepreneurship, partnership and collaborative advantage that underwrite the remaking of planning objectives, functions and instruments.In this ar...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the differences in demographics, participation, satisfactions and management preferences among four segments of anglers across an urban-rural gradient of Berlin, Germany.
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TL;DR: An approach that employs a future land-use simulation (FLUS) model for scenario-based 100-year coastal flood risk assessment and finds that there will be a significant increase in flooded urban areas in the future is elaborated.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the role of land readjustment (LR) projects in suburban planning and land development in a case-study area in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area is examined, where LR projects have been the most importa...
Abstract: This paper examines the role of land readjustment (LR) projects in suburban planning and land development in a case-study area in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. LR projects have been the most importa...
96 citations