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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: The results of this study suggest that special attention should be paid to improving education in disadvantaged places and to better understanding the ways in which economic growth and its benefits are distributed.
Abstract: This research quantifies the extent to which excess morbidity in rural areas is associated with individual characteristics, county income, and neighborhood poverty. Census geographic codes were assigned to people 25 to 64 years old (n = 176,930) from the National Health Interview Survey, 1989 to 1991, in order to link individuals to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's county urban-rural classification scheme and to 1990 county per capita income and poverty concentration in Census tracts. General health status and limitation of activity were analyzed in logistic and multinomial logit models. Residents of rural counties were at greater risk for health problems compared to residents of metropolitan and central core counties. In adjusted models, the health disadvantage of rural areas was partly explained by differences in population composition. The residual rural disadvantage was concentrated in people with less than a high school education. Tract poverty and county per capita income were also important independent predictors of morbidity. The results of this study suggest that special attention should be paid to improving education in disadvantaged places and to better understanding the ways in which economic growth and its benefits are distributed.
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TL;DR: Findings are presented from in-depth interviews with residents across income levels and tenures at two mixed-income developments and the paper explores residents’ perceptions of the physical, psychological and social impacts of the mixed- income setting on their lives.
Abstract: Policy-makers in several countries are turning to income- and tenure-mixing strategies in an attempt to reverse decades of social and economic isolation in impoverished urban areas. In the US city of Chicago, all high-rise public housing developments across the city are being demolished, public housing residents are being dispersed throughout the metropolitan area and 10 new mixed-income developments are being created on the footprint of former public housing complexes. Findings are presented from in-depth interviews with residents across income levels and tenures at two mixed-income developments and the paper explores residents’ perceptions of the physical, psychological and social impacts of the mixed-income setting on their lives.
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01 Jan 2009TL;DR: The main transformations in the spatial organization of former socialist cities and their metropolitan areas included the commercialization and expansion of city centers, the dynamic revitalization of some areas within the overall stagnation in inner cities, and the radical transformation of outer cities and urban hinterland through commercial and residential suburbanization.
Abstract: Post-socialist cities are cities in transition. Urban environments formed under socialist regimes are being adapted and remodeled to new conditions shaped by the political, economic, and cultural transition to capitalist society. In the first instance, systemic government-controlled transformations established basic rules for democratic policymaking and market economy. The market principles of resource allocation, privatization of state assets to a vast number of private actors, and the growing exposure to an international economy formed conditions for the development of spontaneous societal transformations of economic, social, and cultural environments. Urban change has been especially influenced by internationalization and globalization, economic restructuring in terms of de-industrialization and the growth of producer services, increasing social differentiation, new modes of postmodern culture, and neoliberal political practices. The main transformations in the spatial organization of former socialist cities and their metropolitan areas included the commercialization and expansion of city centers, the dynamic revitalization of some areas within the overall stagnation in inner cities, and the radical transformation of outer cities and urban hinterland through commercial and residential suburbanization. The post-socialist urban developments have brought the reemergence of some pre-socialist patterns, transformations in some areas from socialist times, and creation of new post-socialist urban landscapes.
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TL;DR: The Tidal Wave of Metropolitan Expansion as mentioned in this paper was the first wave of metropolitan expansion in the United States in the early 20th century, and it was called the "Tidal Wave".
Abstract: (1954). The Tidal Wave of Metropolitan Expansion. Journal of the American Institute of Planners: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 3-14.
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