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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: This article found that young rural Anglos preserve two stereotypical features of the Texas accent, monophthongal /ai/, as in night, and lowered onsets of /e/ as in day, while young Anglos from metropolitan centers lack these features.
Abstract: The migration of people to the Sunbelt in the United States constitutes a major demographic shift, but has received little attention from language variationists. In Texas, this migration has led to a split of the Anglo population of the state into two dialects, a rural dialect and a metropolitan dialect. Evidence from a random-sample survey of Texas and from a systematic set of surveys of high schools in the state shows that young rural Anglos preserve two stereotypical features of the Texas accent, monophthongal /ai/, as in night, and lowered onsets of /e/, as in day, while young Anglos from metropolitan centers lack these features. This difference, which is absent among middle-aged and older native Texan Anglos, appears to have resulted from the fact that in-migration from other parts of the country is concentrated in metropolitan centers, especially suburbs.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the Milan region becomes one of the major metropolitan areas of Europe, with rapid expansion of urban built-up areas since the 1950s, which has led to significant structural changes.
Abstract: Rapid expansion of urban built-up areas since the 1950s has led to the Milan region becoming one of the major metropolitan areas of Europe. This has been accompanied by significant structural chang...
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TL;DR: Progress was interrupted but not reversed after 1990, and factors such as private schooling, district size, and inclusion of both city and suburban areas within district boundaries had stronger effects than individual court mandates.
Abstract: It has been argued that the effects of the desegregation of public schools from the late 1960s onward were limited and short-lived, in part because of white flight from desegregating districts and in part because legal decisions in the 1990s released many districts from court orders. Data presented here for 1970-2000 show that small increases in segregation between districts were outweighed by larger declines within districts. Progress was interrupted but not reversed after 1990. Desegregation was not limited to districts and metropolitan regions where enforcement actions required it, and factors such as private schooling, district size, and inclusion of both city and suburban areas within district boundaries had stronger effects than individual court mandates.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the travel behavior of residents in four key metropolitan areas in Ghana with data from 926 respondents including 451 females obtained at intra-commuter vehicle terminals.
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01 Sep 2007TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between income, location, car ownership, accessibility and public transport supply and explored car related expenditure and income and the travel behaviours of low income residents who have zero cars and those who might be considered to have forced car ownership.
Abstract: This paper summarises the results of a research project examining transport disadvantage in metropolitan Melbourne. The project is part of a wider international research program funded by the Australian Research Council which is currently focusing on understanding transport disadvantage in Metropolitan Melbourne. The aim of the research is to explore the concept of forced car ownership as it might apply to urban Melbourne. The paper explores the relationship between income, location, car ownership, accessibility and public transport supply. It also explores car related expenditure and income and the travel behaviours of low income residents who have zero cars and those who might be considered to have forced car ownership. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E216058.
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