In recent years, two apparently contradictory but, in fact, complementary socio-political phenomena have reinforced each other in the European urban realm: the re-scaling of nation-states through “devolution” and the emergence of two opposed versions of “nationalism” (that is, ethnic, non-met...
The sample (N = 166,530) contains 7 periods of observation at 5 year intervals of 745 metropolitan counties from 270 metropolitan areas. The unit of analysis is the metropolitan county area. The study found that in the urban cores and suburban fringes of metropolitan areas: 1) overall fiscal...
But in places like the Bay Area—where the principal city (San Francisco) is only one tenth the population of the overall metropolitan area—using this definition would mean even people living in a single-family home in a residential neighborhood in San Francisco would be considered urban, while...
Rural and urban residence was based on metropolitan statistical area. Self-care behaviors (nutrition, physical activity, self-monitoring) and quality-of-care indicators (clinical visits, glycemic control, preventive measures) were self-reported. Logistic regression analyses were done using STATA 10 to ...
Planning for drought in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area has been conducted for decades. In addition to the structural alternatives studied, an academic exercise conducted largely at the Johns Hopkins University in collaboration with the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin concluded ...
As a matter of fact, United Nations (2018) categorized urban areas in three nested levels, in order of increasing sizes: City Proper, Urban Agglomeration and Metropolitan Area, corresponding to different areal and population sizes. Other definitions exist in the literature and in practitioners work...
areasasaresultofruralmigrationandevensuburbanconcentrationintocities,particularlytheverylargeones.Urbanizationiscloselylinkedtomodernization,industrialization,andthesociologicalprocessofrationalizationSuburbanizationisthegrowthofareasonthefringesofcities.Manyresidentsofmetropolitanregionsworkwithinthecentralurbanarea,andchooseto...
it’s also possible to capture urban landscapes in much more subdued locations. Photos of small cities or even towns still fall under the umbrella of urban landscape photography, so if you like the idea of shooting urban landscapes but you don’t live near a major metropolitan area, you’re...
With the expansion of the metropolitan area,a new type urbanized area emerged in a way totally different from the traditional urban form.This kind of place... T Long - 《Human Geography》 被引量: 218发表: 2008年 The 'space' in spatial assistance systems: conception, formalization, and compu...
Our measurements draw on a combination of two databases, one a survey of 50 large American cities and the other a comprehensive index of city-level programming in the area of environmental protection and sustainability. Particular attention is paid to the role of urban nonprofits, including ...