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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: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of residential segregation on the welfare of populations in US metropolitan areas using economic growth as the indicator and found that both racial and skill segregation have a negative impact on short and long-term economic growth.
Abstract: Numerous studies have demonstrated the detrimental influence of residential segregation on poor inner-city residents. This study examines the impact of residential segregation on the welfare of populations in US metropolitan areas using economic growth as the indicator. Panel data of US metropolitan areas spanning 25 years, 1980–2005, are used to analyse the effect of segregation on economic growth. The results show that both racial and skill segregation have a negative impact on short- and long-term economic growth, which have increased over time. Further, the negative impact of the variables associated with spatial mismatch is also revealed. The results clearly point to the need for mobility policies that favour non-White households and comprehensive strategies that promote economic opportunities in low-resource communities in the US.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the influences of macro-level and micro-level urban form characteristics on the respondents' traveling distance by car on weekdays in the Copenhagen metropolitan area.
Abstract: Based on a study in the Copenhagen Metropolitan Area, this paper compares the influences of macro-level and micro-level urban form characteristics on the respondents' traveling distance by car on weekdays. The Copenhagen study shows that metropolitan-scale urban structural variables generally exert stronger influences than neighborhood-scale built-environment characteristics on the amount of car travel. In particular, the location of the residence relative to the main city center of the metropolitan region shows a strong effect. Some local scale variables often described as influential in the literature, such as neighborhood street pattern, show no significant effect on car travel when provisions are made to control for the location of the dwelling relative to the city center.
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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: This paper found that doubling transit service levels is associated with large increases in central city employment density and consequent wage increases ranging from 1.1 to 1.8 percent, or between $7 million and $12 billion yearly per metropolitan area depending on the size of the workforce and the starting average wage.
Abstract: Public transit improvements could cause more clustered and higher-density employment and enable urban growth, giving rise to agglomeration economies by making labor markets more accessible, increasing information exchange, and facilitating industrial specialization. Using data on almost all metropolitan areas in the United States, the authors explicitly traced the links between transit service and multiple physical measures of agglomeration, and hence to wages and gross metropolitan product per capita. Doubling transit service levels (using measures such as total seat capacity) is associated with large increases in central city employment density and consequent wage increases ranging from 1.1 to 1.8 percent, or between $7 million and $12 billion yearly per metropolitan area depending on the size of the workforce and the starting average wage. Firms and households likely receive unanticipated benefits from transit-induced agglomeration, and current benefit-cost evaluations may underestimate the benefits of improving transit service.
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TL;DR: The last two decades have clearly shown that increased automobile ownership and highway construction can facilitate profound redistributions of population and economic activity within metropolitan areas, and that the time has come to help public transportation as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The last two decades have clearly shown that increased automobile ownership and highway construction can facilitate profound redistributions of population and economic activity within metropolitan areas. These changes are related in a fundamental way to many of the social and economic difficulties of our large, mature, central cities: loss of middle and upper income groups to the suburbs, declining retail sales in downtown areas, erosion of the tax base, shift of manufacturing and service establishments to suburban areas, decline of mass transit service and patronage, and increased traffic congestion. There is a great deal of support for the view that there has been too much highway construction and that the time has come to help public transportation. This paper explores some of the issues involved in a program of assistance to public transportation.
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