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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 show that significant relationships between residential location and travel behavior are found among outer-area residents and inner-city dwellers, regardless of any self-selection of residents to particular types of neighbourhoods.
217 citations
01 Jan 1986
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the US urban experience of the past two-centuries and traces a persistently strong relationship between the intraurban transportation system and the spatial form and organization of the metropolis.
Abstract: The movement of people, goods, and information within the local metropolitan area is critically important to the functioning of cities This chapter reviews the US urban experience of the past two-centuries and traces a persistently strong relationship between the intraurban transportation system and the spatial form and organization of the metropolis Following an overview of the cultural foundations of urbanism in the United States, the chapter then introduces a four-stage model of intrametropolitan transport eras and associated growth patterns Within that framework, it becomes clear that a distinctive spatial structure dominated each stage of urban transportation development and that geographical re-organization swiftly followed the break-through in movement technology that launched the next era of metropolitan expansion Finally, the chapter briefly considers the contemporary scene, both as an evolutionary composite of the past and as a dynamic arena where new forces ma already be forging a decidedly different future
216 citations
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TL;DR: Based on time series Landsat MSS/TM/ETM+imagery and historical census data, analysis of the relationship between land use dynamics, built-up land expansion patterns, and underlying driving forces from 1978 to 2008 was performed, using an integrated approach of remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS) techniques and statistical methods as mentioned in this paper.
216 citations
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TL;DR: In Nigeria, Lagos is now one of the fastest growing cities in the Global South as discussed by the authors, which appears to challenge many previously held assumptions about the relationship between economic prosperity and demographic change: unlike the experience of nineteenth-century Europe and North America, for example, we observe a form of urban "involution" marked by vast expansion in combination with economic decline.
Abstract: When the Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti recorded his song “Water no get enemy” in 1975 he could not have anticipated that living conditions would continue to worsen in coming decades to the point at which Lagos would garner the dubious accolade by the 1990s of being widely regarded as one of the worst cities in the world.3 The deteriorating state of the city since the post-independence euphoria of the early 1960s, to reach its current position as a leitmotif for urban poverty and injustice, has occurred in the midst of a global transformation in patterns of urbanization. Lagos is now one of a number of rapidly growing cities in the Global South, which appears to challenge manypreviously held assumptions about the relationship between economic prosperity and demographic change: unlike the experience of nineteenth-century Europe and North America, for example, we observe a form of urban “involution” marked by vast expansion in combination with economic decline (see Davis 2004; Gandy 2005a; Sala-i-Martin and Subramanian 2003; UN 2003a). The UN has recently predicted that by the year 2015, the population of Lagos—currently estimated at over 10 million—will reach 17 million, making it one of the largest cities in the world (UN 2003b). The sprawling city now extends far beyond its original lagoon setting to encompass a vast expanse of mostly low-rise developments including as many as 200 different slums ranging in size from clusters of shacks underneath highways to entire districts such as Ajegunle and Mushin (see Map 11.1).
215 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of metropolitan structure on the commute behavior of urban residents in the Netherlands and found that the probability of driving an auto to work is lower in employment-rich metropolitan regions, and rises as the number of jobs per resident has grown strongly.
Abstract: This paper documents the investigation of the impact of metropolitan structure
on the commute behavior of urban residents in the Netherlands. Not only has the impact of monocentrism
versus polycentrism been analyzed, but the influence of metropolitan density and size
has also been considered, together with the ratio of employment to population and the growth of
the population and employment. Furthermore, data are used at a variety of levels of analysis
ranging from the individual worker to the metropolitan region rather than being drawn from aggregate
level statistics alone. Multilevel regression modeling is applied to take account of the interdependencies
among these levels of aggregation. With regard to mode choice, the results indicate
that the probability of driving an auto to work is lower in employment-rich metropolitan regions,
and rises as the number of jobs per resident has grown strongly. Furthermore, women in most
polycentric regions are less likely to commute as an auto driver. All else being equal, commute
distances and times for auto drivers are longer in most polycentric regions than in monocentric
urban areas. In addition, commute time as an auto driver rises with metropolitan size, whereas
commute distance depends on employment density and the growth of the number of jobs per resident.
The investigation shows that metropolitan structure, although significantly influencing
commute patterns, explains only a small part of the variation of individuals’ commute behavior
214 citations