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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 Aug 2000
TL;DR: In this article, the authors extracted the best evidence to date on how highway investments distribute growth and economic activity across metropolitan areas and also offered ideas on how transportation financing and policies can better respond to the various costs and benefits of highway projects in a region.
Abstract: Growing concerns about traffic congestion and rapid suburban expansion (also known as sprawl) have reignited interest in the ways in which highway spending affects metropolitan growth patterns This discussion paper extracts the best evidence to date on how highway investments distribute growth and economic activity across metropolitan areas The paper also offers ideas on how transportation financing and policies can better respond to the various costs and benefits of highway projects in a region

135 citations

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01 Apr 1997
TL;DR: In this article, global restructuring and emerging corridors in Pacific Asia international transport and communications interactions between Pacific Asia's emerging world cities are discussed. But the authors focus on the urbanization trends in the Philippines and the case of Bangkok and Thailand emerging urban trends and the globalizing economy.
Abstract: Part 1 Global-Asia-Pacific functional linkages: global restructuring and emerging corridors in Pacific Asia international transport and communications interactions between Pacific Asia's emerging world cities. Part 2 Changing Asia-Pacific world cities: the Japanese urban system and the growing centrality of Tokyo in the global economy Seoul - a global city in a nation of rapid growth globalization and the urban system in Taiwan globalization and the urban system in China global influences on recent urbanization trends in the Philippines the changing urban system in a fast-growing city and economy - the case of Bangkok and Thailand emerging urban trends and the globalizing economy in Malaysia Jabotabek and globalization. Part 3 Borderless cities: the Singapore-Johore-Riau triangle - an emerging extended metropolitan region the Hong-Kong-Zhujiang delta and the world city system the evolving urban system in North-East Asia.

135 citations

01 Mar 1996
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the scientific evidence about the impacts of highway capacity additions on traffic flow characteristics, travel demand, land use, vehicle emissions, air quality, and energy use in metropolitan areas.
Abstract: To meet the regulatory requirements of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, metropolitan planning organizations, state officials, legislators, and courts with oversight responsibilities are currently being asked to make judgments about the likely effects of highway capacity additions on air quality on the basis of their interpretation of the best available information. The Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board initiated an 18-month study, the results of which are summarized in TRB Special Report 245, "Expanding Metropolitan Highways--Implications for Air Quality and Energy Use", to evaluate the scientific evidence about the impacts of highway capacity additions on traffic flow characteristics, travel demand, land use, vehicle emissions, air quality, and energy use in metropolitan areas. The TRB study does not resolve the broader debate--which involves value judgments about the relative importance of mobility, economic growth, environmental protection, and energy conservation--but it does review the state of knowledge and the reliability of forecasting tools available to planning agencies to predict the effects of expanding highway capacity on air quality and energy use. This article comments on the findings of the TRB study and presents the study's concluding observations.

134 citations

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TL;DR: In the absence of any democratic decision making at the metropolitan level, key decisions are left to market forces, especially to the powerful economic actors, including developers and private companies now controlling privatized public services as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: This paper describes how Buenos Aires has been affected by changes in political structures and economic orientations that are linked to globalization, including the removal of trade barriers, privatization and “reduced” government. In the absence of any democratic decision making at the metropolitan level, key decisions are left to market forces, especially to the powerful economic actors, including developers and private companies now controlling privatized “public” services. The only true “planning” occurs within large private developments, including the gated communities in which half a million people now live. A growing spatial fragmentation accompanies growing levels of inequality. The metropolitan area fails to provide an arena for its citizens, which means that any general public interest is lost as the built environment is reshaped and constructed in response to private demands.

134 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, an investigation of data collected for a large number of metropolitan areas in 1960 reveals a number of variables associated with inequality in the distribution of fiscal resources among municipalities in metropolitan areas, including location in the South, age, size and density of the metropolis, nonwhite concentration, family income inequality, residential segregation among social classes, housing segregation by quality, and governmental fragmentation.
Abstract: The political incorporation and municipal segregation of classes and status groups in the metropolis tend to divorce fiscal resources from public needs and to create and perpetuate inequality among urban residents in the United States. An investigation of data collected for a large number of metropolitan areas in 1960 reveals a number of variables associated with inequality in the distribution of fiscal resources among municipalities in metropolitan areas. The level of income inequality among municipal governments in metropolitan areas varies directly with: location in the South; age, size and density of the metropolis; nonwhite concentration; family income inequality; residential segregation among social classes; housing segregation by quality; and governmental fragmentation. The data provide support for the argument that governmental inequality occupies a central position in the urban stratification system.

134 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