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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 authors examined recent trends in the suburbanization of poor non-Latino Whites, Blacks, and Asians, and Latinos of all races in the United States, and found strong associations with suburbanization.
Abstract: This research examines recent trends in the suburbanization of poor non-Latino Whites, Blacks, and Asians, and Latinos of all races in the United States. The authors find strong associations betwee...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared China and the USA in terms of urban sprawl characteristics in infilling, edge expansion, and outlying expansion patches, and found that more than half of the outlying urban sprawls occur within a distance of 4 km from the current primary construction centre in the USA.
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TL;DR: In this article, the EU-OECD method is used to define functional urban areas (FUAs), which encompass the economic and functional extent of cities based on daily people's movements.
Abstract: This paper describes the EU-OECD method to define functional urban areas (FUAs). Being composed of a city and its commuting zone, FUAs encompass the economic and functional extent of cities based on daily people’s movements. The paper first presents briefly the methodological approach and subsequently provides a detailed description of the identification algorithm, together with the data needed to apply it. This definition has been applied to 33 OECD member countries and Colombia, as well as to all European Union member countries.
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TL;DR: In this article, the issues of conflicting stakes and governance in the metropolitan peripheries are examined on the basis of selected cases studies of large Indian metropolises, that aim to highlight the role of various actors, traditional as well as emerging ones, in shaping peri-urban dynamics.
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TL;DR: The authors evaluated the effects of tourism on American metropolitan areas and determined whether tourism-dependent cities in the United States are similar to those elsewhere, and found two distinct types of tourism urbanization in United States, one specializing in "sun, sand, and sea" tourism and the other specializing in highly capital-intensive tourist attractions.
Abstract: The rapid growth of the tourism industry over the past 50 years has had a number of important consequences. One of these is the evolution of entire metropolitan areas heavily dependent on tourism, a phenomenon Mullins calls tourism urbanization. Such urban centers include Las Vegas and Orlando in the United States, the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast in Australia, and Cancun in Mexico. Studies of tourism-dependent cities outside the United States have shown them to differ symbolically and socially from more traditional metropolitan areas. The author evaluates the effects of tourism on American metropolitan areas and determines whether tourism-dependent cities in the United States are similar to those elsewhere. The author found two distinct types of tourism urbanization in the United States. One type specializes in "sun, sand, and sea" tourism, and the other specializes in highly capital-intensive tourist attractions. The two types of tourist cities exhibit different social structures, and both differ i...
87 citations