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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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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: The case of public spaces in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona is discussed in this paper, where the authors discuss the politics of sustainability in the context of economic, social, and urban change.
Abstract: Krueger, Gibbs, Introduction: Problematizing the Politics of Sustainability. Swyngedouw, Impossible "Sustainability" and the Postpolitical Condition. Keil, Sustaining Modernity, Modernizing Nature: The Environmental Crisis and the Survival of Capitalism. Buckingham, Microgeographies and Microruptures: The Politics of Gender in the Theory and Practice of Sustainability. Gibbs, Krueger, Containing the Contradictions of Rapid Development?: New Economy Spaces and Sustainable Urban Development. Jonas, While, Greening the Entrepreneurial City?: Looking for Spaces of Sustainability Politics in the Competitive City. Pares, Sauri, Integrating Sustainabilities in a Context of Economic, Social, and Urban Change: The Case of Public Spaces in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona. Batchelor, Patterson, Political Modernization and the Weakening of Sustainable Development in Britain. Raco, Spatial Policy, Sustainability, and State Restructuring: A Reassessment of Sustainable Community Building in England. Evans, The Spatial Politics of Conservation Planning. Pincetl, Katz, The Imperial Valley of California: Sustainability, Water, Agriculture, and Urban Growth.

164 citations

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TL;DR: The authors found that people living in the suburbs are no more likely to express higher satisfaction with their neighborhood, greater satisfaction with the quality of their lives, or stronger feelings of self-efficacy than those living in urban areas.
Abstract: Classic urban theory suggests that living in highly urbanized areas of the city results in social isolation, social disorganization, and psychological problems. Living in the suburbs, however, is thought to be much more conducive to happiness, because suburban areas have a lower population density, lower crime, and a more stable population when compared to urban areas. Using data collected in 1974 from the Detroit Metropolitan Area, this study evaluates this “happy suburbanite” hypothesis. Results show that people living in the suburbs are no more likely to express greater satisfaction with their neighborhood, greater satisfaction with the quality of their lives, or stronger feelings of self-efficacy than people living in the city. The analyses reveal that social integration and perceptions of the neighborhood are associated with neighborhood satisfaction, whereas employment status, age, housing satisfaction, and neighborhood satisfaction are associated with good psychological health. The results also show that length of residence has the strongest effect on neighborhood social ties and participation in local activities. The implication of these findings for a social psychological theory of community life is discussed.

164 citations

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TL;DR: Using hierarchical modeling, the results indicate that even with strong controls for individual variables, residents of areas with more highly accessible and gridded street networks have higher health ratings, and residents of more densely populated urban areas have lower rated health, net of individual-level measures.
Abstract: This article addresses the contention that urban sprawl influences general health through physical activity, obesity, and the presence of chronic disease. Data on individual health is obtained from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III study in 29 primary metropolitan statistical areas, and data on sprawl are from Ewing et al. Using hierarchical modeling, the results indicate that even with strong controls for individual variables, residents of areas with more highly accessible and gridded street networks have higher health ratings. At the same time, residents of more densely populated urban areas have lower rated health, net of individual-level measures. Measures of sprawl have no significant relationship to frequency of walking, body mass index, or diagnosis of various chronic diseases. However, among those with chronic conditions, including hypertension, diabetes, and lung disease, those who live in areas with more highly connected street networks have higher rated health.

163 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a simple model of a metropolitan housing market is presented identifying three interrelated submarkets and estimating equations for rent, housing prices and urban land prices using two-stage least squares.
Abstract: In attempting to explain why housing prices, rents and urban land prices vary so dramatically between U.S. metropolitan areas, a simple model of a metropolitan housing market is presented identifying three interrelated submarkets. Estimating equations for rent, housing prices and urban land prices are identified and estimated using two-stage least squares. The empirical results provide strong support for the theoretical model concerning how these three submarkets interact. The results also suggest that household income and construction costs are the most important factors causing housing prices, rents and land prices to vary between metropolitan areas.

163 citations

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TL;DR: A shift from monocentric cities to increasingly polycentric urban regions has been widely recognized in recent research literature as discussed by the authors, which refers to the existence of polycentricity in general.
Abstract: A shift from monocentric cities to increasingly polycentric urban regions has been widely recognised in recent research literature. Although polycentricity in general refers to the existence of sev...

163 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