Metropolitan Areas
A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories under the same administrative division, sharing industry, infrastructure and housing. A metro area usually comprises multiple jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships, boroughs, cities, towns, exurbs, suburbs, counties, districts, states, and even nations like the eurodistricts. As social, economic and political institutions have changed, metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions.Metropolitan areas include satellite cities, towns and intervening rural areas that are socioeconomically tied to the urban core, typically measured by commuting patterns. Most metropolitan areas are anchored by …
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The Aspen Institute · 14 November 2024 English
Personal wealth—savings and assets minus debts—is a central component of household financial security for families at all income levels. Obtaining homeownership is frequently and justifiably viewed as a primary way …
of renter households live in counties in metropolitan areas with more than 250,000 residents, compared …
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 13 November 2024 English
This report assesses how Indian ADB-backed projects to construct and upgrade some 45,000 km of rural roads are improving connectivity, opening socioeconomic opportunities, and transforming communities.
ash from power plants, plastic trash from metropolitan areas and sand from river areas, depending on … ash from power plants, plastic trash from metropolitan areas, and sand from river areas, depending on …
Fraser Institute · 13 November 2024 English
Since 2000, Quebec’s real per-capita GDP has grown at an annual average of 1.2 percent, while Ontario’s has grown at 0.7 percent—both below the Canadian average. Ontario and Quebec’s real …
bulk of its industry and three major census metropolitan areas (CMAs)—the Greater Toronto Area, Greater … fraserinstitute.org the nation’s 11 largest metropolitan areas (Fortin and Polèse, 2024). While Toronto …
Cato Institute · 13 November 2024 English
conducting cost-benefit analyses, and helping local officials understand how their city, town, and metropolitan areas compare with others. …
officials understand how their city, town, and metropolitan areas compare with others. Our research uses a … predictions of roadway widths and areas across US metropolitan areas. We matched these predictions to estimated …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 12 November 2024 English
The second edition of the Caucasus Environment Outlook (CEO-2) emphasizes in its nine chapters the importance of regional environmental monitoring through a participatory and consultative approach. It explores the latest …
6), which has primarily occurred in the metropolitan areas of the Ecoregion’s national capitals and …
World Bank Group · 11 November 2024 English
Argentina faces persistently high poverty rates, which have shown an upward trend in recent years, despite increased resources aimed at mitigating poverty.
prices are similar to those in the main metropolitan areas of each region, suggest that while the trends … Small urban areas - Not covered by EPH Main metropolitan areas - Covered by EPH Source: INDEC. Note: Permanent … significantly from those observed in major metropolitan areas. Sources: CEDLAS and World Bank (2014); INDEC …
World Bank Group · 7 November 2024 English
seedlings, greening of 23 major Roads i n the metropolitan areas of K aduna, Kafanchan and Zaria (KKZ). IDA …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 7 November 2024 English
This paper reviews recent research in spatial economics. The field of spatial economics is concerned with the determinants and effects of the location of economic activity in geographic space. It …
key attractions of living in these large metropolitan areas. Additionally, most existing research on …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 7 November 2024 English
This paper reviews recent quantitative urban models. These models are sufficiently rich to capture observed features of the data, such as many asymmetric locations and a rich geography of the …
reddings@princeton.edu1 Introduction Modern metropolitan areas include vast concentrations of economic activity … people in 2010, respectively. Within these metropolitan areas, we observe large differences in land prices …
EPI: Education Policy Institute · 6 November 2024 English
This publication includes analysis of the National Pupil Database (NPD): The Department for Education is responsible for the collation and management of the NPD and is the Data Controller of …
experience opportunities outside of major metropolitan areas and lack of qualifications and routes for …
