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.

Interindustry Relations of a Metropolitan Area

Abstract: A GREAT deal of interest in metropolitan area analysis centers around the economic impact of autonomous forces upon any of the area's sectors and upon its totality. Researchers have often felt that even approximate knowledge of the structural relationship of the local economy would greatly facilitate their work. An interindustry flow table has been prepared for the St. Louis area, one of the ten largest metropolitan areas in the United States. From such a table it is but a short step to technical coefficients and the inverse matrix. Furthermore, from these tables income and employment multipliers can be estimated. Both are powerful tools in assessing the impact of final demand changes upon the economic activity of a metropolitan area. Much serious criticism has been leveled in the past against area technical coefficients which are deduced from national ones pertaining to an outdated period. This study undertakes to estimate 1955 coefficients with the help of data obtained directly from a sample of private and public bodies which together constitute the St. Louis metropolitan area economy. Based upon this information some activity and impact projections are attempted.

Technological innovation and interfirm cooperation: an exploratory analysis using survey data from manufacturing firms in the metropolitan region of Vienna

Abstract: This paper centres around two research questions: first, the identification of five types of networks that manufacturing firms located in the metropolitan region of Vienna may have created for different purposes and second, the question to what extent the likelihood of interfirm cooperation is conditioned by the general profile of manufacturing establishments and their technological resources. Although this paper focuses on the manufacturing sector, a special emphasis is placed on the electronics industry. The study utilises a recent postal survey providing data on size and organisation, products and markets, research and development, innovation and interfirm relationships. The analysis of the first question finds that first, networking does not yet seem to be a popular managerial and organisational concept for manufacturing firms located in the metropolitan region of Vienna; second, networking activities are primarily based on vertical relationships (customer, manufacturer supplier and producer service provider networks) rather than on horizontal linkages (producer networks, industry-university linkages); third, networks focusing on the later stages of the innovation process are less common than those focusing on the earlier stages; fourth, firms tend to rely on sources of technology from national and - especially - international networks. It appears that metropolitan networking is less common than has been thought. For technical advance spatial proximity does not seem to be very important. Turning to the second research question of the study, focusing on the adoption of the managerial and organisational concept of networking, the results are bolstering the argument that establishment traits and technology related-capabilities do play a role. The results achieved reveal, for example, that in-house research skills are a very good predictor for industry-university relationships.

Towns and small cities in developing countries.

Abstract: The strategy if Industrial growth poles initiated during the 1960s now seems to be neither appropriate nor sufficient to generate widespread development in developing countries. This paper discusses the importance of towns and small cities for developing hinterlands transforming subsistence into commercial agriculture and integrating urban and rural economies. Although cities have a strong influence on the development of their regions their areas of influence are clearly limited. Towns and small cities provide essential links of distribution and exchange between agricultural areas and urban centers. The growth of massive metropolitan areas in 3rd World countries has created serious economic and social problems. The effects of cities on villages and rural populations decline with increased distance thereby creating an uneven distribution of growth economy and improved access for the rural population to town-based services and facilities such as medical services banks and agricultural exchange. The absence of these essential services and facilities in small cities helps to create underdeveloped low-order settlements in rural regions. The linkage between towns and rural areas are therefore the primary channels through which rural populations derive their income. In addition investment in farm-to-market roads waterways small scale agroprocessing establishments and health and social services will help establish rural industrialization an important element for the development of towns and small cities.

Do Strict Land Use Regulations Make Metropolitan Areas More Segregated by Income

Abstract: Problem, research strategy, and findings: Income segregation has risen in each of the last four decades in U.S. metropolitan areas, which can have lifelong impacts on the health, economic productivity, and behaviors of residents. Although it is widely assumed that local land use regulations—such as minimum lot sizes and growth controls—exclude low-income households from wealthier neighborhoods, the empirical research is surprisingly limited. We examine the relationship between land use regulation and segregation by income using new measures for the 95 biggest cities in the United States. We find that density restrictions are associated with the segregation of the wealthy and middle income, but not the poor. We also find that more local pressure to regulate land use is linked to higher rates of income segregation, but that more state control is connected to lower-income segregation.Takeaway for practice: Density restrictions do drive urban income segregation of the rich, not the poor, but should be address...