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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 article, the authors argue that water demand management policies may be insufficient for reaching their ultimate goal of controlled water consumption when confronted with structural changes in urban development such as the expansion of low-density growth, the multiplication of the number of households, or gains i...
Abstract: The economic, social, and environmental limits of supplying water to metropolitan areas through conventional means (reservoirs, water transfers, etc.) have resulted in growing consideration of demand management actions as well as in the use of non-conventional sources of supply. In terms of demand management, economic instruments (pricing and taxes), domestic water-saving technologies, and educational campaigns to encourage water saving during periods of drought have received special attention. While demand management policies have an effect on conserving water and therefore should be welcome, they present problems and uncertainties as well. Using the example of the metropolitan region of Barcelona, in this article I argue that water demand management policies may be insufficient for reaching their ultimate goal of controlled water consumption when confronted with structural changes in urban development such as the expansion of low-density growth, the multiplication of the number of households, or gains i...

81 citations

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TL;DR: This paper examined suburban real estate developments in the industrial, commercial, and residential sectors for metropolitan Chicago that were completed in 1990-1996 and found that industrial and commercial developments follow expected patterns in that, for example, they were attracted to locations nearer to O'Hare Airport and highway interchanges.

81 citations

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19 Dec 2002
TL;DR: A model of agricultural change in the Roman suburbium and agricultural development in central Italy is described in this paper, with a focus on marketing and urbanisation in a pre-industrial economy.
Abstract: Introduction: Rome and Italy 1. The metropolitan city in a pre-industrial economy 2. The demographic burden 3. A model of agricultural change 4. The transformation of the Roman suburbium 5. Agricultural development in central Italy 6. Exploiting the margins 7. Marketing and urbanisation Conclusion Bibliography Index.

81 citations

01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: Hall and Hubbard as mentioned in this paper examined park provision in Los Angeles through interviews and current documents, as well as through newspaper articles and park bond proposition language, and concluded that civil society organizations such as nonprofits act in quite similar ways to traditional urban regime business interests.
Abstract: Objectives. Park planning and development in the Los Angeles metropolitan area offer an opportunity to explore the assertion that ‘‘Western cities are now being managed, organized and governed in different ways’’ leading to a ‘‘new urban politics,’’ and the suggestion that urban regime theory captures cultural and civil societal influences and organizations in its descriptions of coalitions and their roles in promoting places. Methods. This article examines park provision in Los Angeles historically and in the contemporary period through interviews and current documents, as well as through newspaper articles and park bond proposition language. Results. The resulting analysis suggests that civil society organizations such as nonprofits act in quite similar ways to traditional urban regime business interests. Conclusions. Nonprofits should be examined for their roles in creating a new urban politics, including structures of governance. Additionally, in the environmental area, these organizations have become significant actors in determining land uses. Park planning and development in the Los Angeles metropolitan area offer an opportunity to explore the assertion that ‘‘Western cities are now being managed, organized and governed in different ways’’ leading to a ‘‘new urban politics’’ (Hall and Hubbard, 1998:1, referring to Cox and Mair, 1988; Kirlin and Marshall, 1988) involving, in part, the rise of urban entrepreneurialism and competitivity among regions. In the United States, local government, local finance, politics, land and economic development, and social service provision have been deeply affected by a complex conjunction of circumstances, including the acceleration of globalization, the increasing devolution of government authority to states and localities and the hollowing out of the state, as well as the de-statization of politics (see, e.g., Ward, 1996:427; Jessop, 1995; Sassen, 1996).

81 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a power function model that relates employment and establishment growth to MSA size and initial level of employment in a local industry was used to show that service industrial complexes are rapidly emerging in American metropolitan areas.
Abstract: The growth of many service industries among American metropolitan areas stem from an eclectic set of forces. These include market penetration effects of increasing importance of services throughout the economy, agglomeration effects in immature and deregulated industries, and institutional and infrastructure constraints. These diverse forces are interpreted as urbanization and localization economies. A cycle of centralization of 27 fast growing service industries is documented for MS As in the period 1977-84. The two agglomeration effects are tested directly, using a power function model that relates employment and establishment growth to MSA size and initial level of employment in a local industry. Localization economies rather than the general advantages of metropolitan size best explain the growth patterns. This result implies that service industrial complexes are rapidly emerging in American metropolitan areas.

81 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20232,189
20224,773
20211,006
20201,173
20191,025
20181,191