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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, a modeling study aimed at quantifying the potential effects of extensive changes in urban land cover in the New York City (NYC), USA metropolitan region on surface meteorology and ozone (O3) concentrations is presented.
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01 Jan 1994
TL;DR: The Politics of American Cities: An Introduction as discussed by the authors, the New Deal Coalition and the Cities, the Private City and Local Democracy: The Political Legacy of the Nineteenth Century, and the Rise of the Sunbelt Cities.
Abstract: 1. The Politics of American Cities: An Introduction. I. CONTESTED TERRAIN: POLITICAL CONFLICT IN THE CITIES. 2. The Private City and Local Democracy: The Political Legacy of the Nineteenth Century. 3. Party Machines and Political Entrepreneurs. 4. The Struggle for Political Control: The Reform Legacy. 5. The New Deal Coalition and the Cities. II. THE CITY IN NATIONAL POLITICS. 6. The Rise of the Divided Metropolis. 7. National Policy and the Divided Metropolis. 8. The Rise and Fall of National Urban Policy. 9. The Rise of the Sunbelt Cities. III. URBAN POLITICS AND THE FRACTURING OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL COMMUNITY. 10. The Politics of Secession: The Suburbs. 11. Urban Sprawl and the Governance of Metropolitan Regions. 12. Fiscal Crisis and the Problems of Governance. 13. Revitalizing the Cities: The Growth Imperative. 14. The Challenge of Urban Governance. 15. The Fragmented Society.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a novel geographical information system database of county-urban proximity measures to examine the nexus between poverty in rural U.S. counties and their remoteness, particularly in regard to their geographical proximity to larger urban centers.
Abstract: Despite strong growth during the 1990s economic expansion being accompanied by significant reductions in measures of U.S. poverty, high poverty persisted in remote rural areas. Therefore, this study uses a novel geographical information system database of county-urban proximity measures to examine the nexus between poverty in rural U.S. counties and their remoteness, particularly in regard to their geographical proximity to larger urban centers. We find that poverty rates are positively associated with greater rural distances from successively larger (higher-tiered) metropolitan areas ( ceteris paribus ). We explain this outcome as arising from the attenuation of urban agglomeration effects at greater distances and incomplete labor supply adjustments in remote rural areas in the form of commuting and migration. Yet, although our results suggest that they are at a disadvantage in terms of reduced benefits from urban agglomeration economies, remote rural areas also may particularly benefit from place-based economic development policies in terms of their effect on poverty.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the experience of India as a lens through which to view the problems of access to water in urban areas and the various options available for reform, using two sets of data from the National Family Health Survey, as well as published and unpublished secondary sources.
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