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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: Smart Places as discussed by the authors is a decision support system that provides access to state, regional, and local geospatial databases, several informational and visualization tools, and assumptions useful in providing a better understanding of issues, options, and alternatives in redeveloping brownfields.
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TL;DR: Evidence indicates that urban expansion into fringe land consumes primarily cropland and sparse vegetation in the case of the Athens' metropolitan region, and urban planning seems to have a limited impact on selective land take.
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TL;DR: Investigating the socioeconomic background underlying land-use changes in metropolitan regions allows identification of place-specific factors improving the design of effective strategies containing land consumption in different European urban typologies, and contributes to find alternative policies for land- use efficiency and long-term environmental sustainability.
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TL;DR: In the past fifteen years many models have been developed in the field of urban planning as discussed by the authors for the allocation of activities in urban areas, concerning the distribution of residential, commerical, industrial, and other land uses over space.
Abstract: In the past fifteen years many models have been developed in the field of urban planning. The earlier attempts focused mostly on the transportation system—traffic distribution or assignment—mainly because they were proposed for application in metropolitan transportation studies. More recently, however, increasing attention has been directed toward models for the allocation of activities in urban areas, concerning the distribution of residential, commerical, industrial, and other land uses over space.
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TL;DR: In this paper, 12 conceptually distinct dimensions of land use patterns are operationalized for 50 large US metropolitan areas using a battery of indices, and common patterns of variation in these indices across metropolitan areas are discerned using correlation and factor analyses.
Abstract: : Twelve conceptually distinct dimensions of land use patterns are operationalized for 50 large US metropolitan areas using a battery of indices. Common patterns of variation in these indices across metropolitan areas are discerned using correlation and factor analyses. We find that: (1) seven principal components best summarize the dimensions of housing and employment land uses, (2) metro areas often exhibit both high and low levels of sprawl-like patterns across the seven components, and (3) housing and employment aspects of sprawl-like patterns differ in nature. Thus, land use patterns prove multi-dimensional in both theory and practice. Exploratory analyses indicate: (1) little regional variation in land use patterns, (2) metro areas with larger populations are more dense/continuous with greater housing centrality and concentration of employment in the core, (3) older areas have higher degrees of housing concentration and employment in the core, (4) constrained areas evince greater density/continuity, and (5) inter-metropolitan variations in several dimensions of land use patterns are not well explained by population, age, growth patterns, or topographical constraints on development. Results imply that policymakers must carefully unravel which land use dimension is causing undesirable outcomes, and then devise precise policy instruments to change only this dimension.
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