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.

“Every Breath You Take... ”: The Demographics of Toxic Air Releases in Southern California

Abstract: In this article, the authors investigate the relationship between ethnicity and potential environmental hazards in the metropolitan Los Angeles area Using a variety of techniques, including geographic information systems (GIS) mapping, univariate comparisons, and logit, ordered logit, and tobit regression analysis, the authors find that, even controlling for other factors such as income and the extent of manufacturing employment and land use, minority residents tend to be disproportionately located in neighborhoods surrounding toxic air emissions The results generally support the propositions of the proponents of “environmental justice”; in the conclusion, they consider what this might mean for urban land use and environmental policy

Political Polarization along the Rural-Urban Continuum? The Geography of the Presidential Vote, 2000–2016:

Abstract: This article documents the diversity of political attitudes and voting patterns along the urban-rural continuum of the United States. We find that America’s rural and urban interface, in terms of political attitudes and voting patterns, is just beyond the outer edges of large urban areas and through the suburban counties of smaller metropolitan areas. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton performed well in densely populated areas on the urban side of the interface, but they faced increasingly difficult political climates and sharply diminished voter support on the rural side of the interface. The reduction in support for Clinton in 2016 in rural areas was particularly pronounced. Even after controlling for demographic, social, and economic factors (including geographic region, education, income, age, race, and religious affiliation) in a spatial regression, we find that a county’s position in the urban-rural continuum remained statistically significant in the estimation of voting patterns in presidential ...

Urban Sprawl and the Loss of Peri-Urban Land in Kumasi, Ghana

Abstract: Kumasi is Ghana's second largest and fastest growin g city with an annual population growth rate of 5.4 p ercent. A major result of this phenomenon is a growing sprawl at th e fringes of the city. This paper assesses the nature, extent and im pact of sprawl on Kumasi and examines urban planning efforts at addressing this phenomenon. Both secondary and empirical data were collected from decentralised government departments of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly and residents of some sprawling communities. The study reveals that sprawl in the metropolis is rapidly co nsuming fringe rural communities. This situation has weakened effective management of the metropolis causing problems such as congestion and conversion of peri-urban land into residential use without anc illary infrastructure and social services. The paper recommends effective and timely planning and provision of services as well as an ov erall economic development and spatial integration through regiona l planning as a way of achieving a long term solution to sprawl.