Quantitative Delimitation of Metropolitan Areas Based on a Synthetic Method: Case Study in the Lanzhou Metropolitan Area

2010 ◽  
Vol 136 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lichen Liu ◽  
Xiaofeng Dong ◽  
Shouqian Chi
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Synthetic Method

scholarly journals MANAGEMENT ELEMENTS OF THE EMERGENT METROPOLITAN AREAS IN A TRANSITION COUNTRY. ROMANIA, AS CASE STUDY

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioan IANOȘ ◽  
Daniel PEPTENATU ◽  
Cristian DRĂGHICI ◽  
Radu Daniel PINTILII
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Countries In Transition

Complex processes, specific to the countries in transition, have had major impacts on restructuring the territorial management systems. The removal of restrictions of limiting urban expansion, imposed by the totalitarian regime, has allowed the rapid expansion of cities, beyond administrative boundaries, since 1989. The concept of emerging metropolitan area is explained by the multitude of problems posed by the sketching of these areas and especially by their functioning. Synthesizing, there are presented some managerial experiences considered inchoate, of some emerging Romanian metropolitan areas, with an emphasis on Bucharest’s metropolitan area. The conclusions of these descriptive analysis show the complexity of the problems that can occur during the process of building of the metropolitan areas under the circumstances of lack of an inter-municipal cooperation culture. Integrated management takes into account two realities: firstly, that the management of emerging metropolitan areas is trans-scalar, achieving the partial mergence of the management types (including the collegiate one), and secondly, that insuring a multi-level governance without implementing a polycentric intra-metropolitan development policy, is not sufficient.

scholarly journals Influence of Characteristics of Metropolitan Areas on the Logistics Sprawl: A Case Study for Metropolitan Areas of the State of Paraná (Brazil)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9779
Author(s):  
Luísa Tavares Muzzi de Sousa ◽  
Leise Kelli de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
The State ◽  
Urban Freight ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Urban Freight Transport ◽  
Data Collection Procedure

The concentration of warehouses in peripheral regions of metropolitan areas in a time period is called logistics sprawl (LS). Identifying this phenomenon could help to reduce externalities related to urban freight transport, mainly, the distance traveled. This paper examines the contribution of the characteristics of metropolitan areas on the logistics sprawl indicator. A case study was carried out considering data from eight metropolitan areas of the state of Paraná (Brazil). The research method is based on the data collection procedure proposed, centrographic method, and linear regression. The results of the centrographic method reveal a positive LS in four metropolitan areas and a negative LS in three metropolitan areas. In general, the warehouses are close to the highways that cross the metropolitan area. In addition, the size of the metropolitan area has a negative relationship with the number of warehouses and the logistics sprawl indicator. The findings highlight the importance of public policies relating to urban freight transport and land use at a metropolitan level.

scholarly journals Urban-Rural Relationships in Feeding Metropolis: A Case Study in Ljubljana Metropolitan Area

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 259-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Sali ◽  
Stefano Corsi ◽  
Federica Monaco ◽  
Chiara Mazzocchi ◽  
Matjaž Glavan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Production Potential ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Definition Of

Metropolitan areas are characterized by the coexistence of a urban core insisting on natural resources of surrounding rural areas, strictly linked to the former. Inevitably, increasing urbanization and its consequences affect the model of urban development, which then needs to deal with the challenge of sustainability, also aiming to reduce pressures on resources and on supplying capacities of rural agricultural systems in providing food to urban zones, traditionally lacking. It then becomes important to deepen the possibility for the dense core to be supplied through proximity agriculture, able to recreate and improve synergic connections between urban and rural spheres. The paper aims to study the relationships among them for feeding the metropolis, adopting a methodology for the spatial definition of urban centre in metropolitan area and the assessment of its food balance, in order to identify the potentialities of local and proximity agriculture and provide a first evaluation for the possibility to match urban development and production potential. Identified tools are applied to Ljubljana metropolitan area.

scholarly journals The influence of suburban development and metropolitan fragmentation on language variation and change: Evidence from Greater St. Louis

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-97
Author(s):  
Daniel Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Language Variation ◽  
Language Variation And Change ◽  
Northern Cities Shift ◽  
Northern Cities ◽  
Suburban Development ◽  
Metropolitan Fragmentation

AbstractThe distances between urban and suburban spaces, while small in Euclidean terms, have a rather large social reality. This paper calls attention to two reasons for this—suburban development and metropolitan fragmentation—and situates these phenomena within the context of sociological and historical thought about metropolitan areas. I test their role in linguistic variation through a case study of three Northern Cities Shift features (raised trap, fronted lot, and lowered thought) in English of the St. Louis metropolitan area. I show that these features diffused throughout the region in three different ways. Additionally, phonological conditioning of lot-fronting differs between urban and suburban speakers, and retreat from urban dialect features is led in the suburbs. These findings highlight the need to consider the geography of metropolitan areas more deeply in studies of language variation and change in metropolitan areas, as similarity across a metropolitan area should not be assumed a priori.

scholarly journals Soft planning for soft spaces. Concept of Poznań metropolitan area development – a case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Kaczmarek
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Planning Tools ◽  
Area Development ◽  
Planning Approaches

Abstract The article presents the essence, goals and instruments of soft (informal, non-statutory) spatial planning, developed in the countries of Western Europe and relatively new in Poland. It targets areas with fuzzy borders (soft spaces) and areas between administration tiers. The article presents conceptual issues and non-formal planning tools used in Western Europe. The planning approaches which are generally described as “soft” are characterised by non-formalised and non-binding procedures, and by their focus on achieving a consensus. In the first part of the article presents the conceptual issues and further informal planning instruments used in Western European countries at different spatial scales The following section presents deficits of spatial planning of metropolitan areas and - against this background - the legitimacy of creating informal plans in Poland, using Metropolia Poznań as an example

scholarly journals Efficiency and equity of orbital motorways in Madrid

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Martin ◽  
Juan Carlos García-Palomares ◽  
Javier Gutierrez ◽  
Concepción Román
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Transport Network ◽  
Spatial Perspective ◽  
Urban Agglomerations ◽  
Equity And Efficiency ◽  
Efficiency Effects

Orbital motorways are major structuring elements in the metropolitan areas of developed countries. They can be considered as key components within the transport network of large urban agglomerations, funneling a great amount of intra- and inter-metropolitan traffic. This paper explores the equity and efficiency effects of orbital motorways on accessibility, using the beltways of Madrid as a case study. It is well known that orbital impacts differ depending on their location within the metropolitan area (inner and outer) as well as the activity distributional performance (agglomeration vs. decentralization of activities). These topics have received very little attention in previous studies. The paper extracts some policy considerations with respect to accessibility disparities within metropolitan areas and compares relative changes from the spatial perspective.

Superstar Cities

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 167-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Gyourko ◽  
Christopher Mayer ◽  
Todd Sinai
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Aggregate Demand ◽  
House Price ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Local Factors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Price Appreciation

We document large long-run differences in average house price appreciation across metropolitan areas over the past 50 years, and show they can be explained by an inelastic supply of land in some unique locations combined with an increasing number of highincome households nationally. The resulting high house prices and price-to-rent ratios in those “superstar” areas crowd out lower income households. The same forces generate a similar pattern among municipalities within a metropolitan area. These facts suggest that disparate local house price and income trends can be driven by aggregate demand, not just changes in local factors such as productivity or amenities. (JEL R11, R23, R31, R52)

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