An Overview of South Africa's Metropolitan Areas – Dualistic, Dynamic and under Threat… [PDF]
European Spatial Research and Policy, 2010 The article explores the threats posed to metropolitan viability and resilience in South Africa which is faced by continued spatial and economic concentration and duality – a trend also evident in a number of Central European countries.
Elsona van Huyssteen +4 more
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Organization of Psychosocial Processes in Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Regions. [PDF]
Urban Reg EcolBackground: Adolescents’ social, emotional, and behavioral characteristics do not operate in isolation but form interconnected systems that shape well-being. These processes may differ across geographic settings, particularly between metropolitan (MSA) and non-metropolitan (non-MSA) environments, which vary in social norms, community resources, and ...
Assari S, Pallera JA.
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Impact of reduction of susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 on epidemic dynamics in four early-seeded metropolitan regions [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 As we enter a chronic phase of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, with uncontrolled infection rates in many places, relative regional susceptibilities are a critical unknown for policy planning.
Thomas J. Barrett +3 more
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Territorial Resilience of Metropolitan Regions: A Conceptual Framework, Recognition Methodologies and Planning Response—A Case Study of Wuhan Metropolitan Region [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Meng-Jie Zhang
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Metropolitan governance in the context of dynamic urbanization: the case of Brazil
Frontiers in Political Science, 2023 This study discusses the evolvement of metropolitan governance in Brazil and uses greater São Paulo as an in-depth case study to demonstrate how metropolitan governance is organized in a megacity region in the Global South.
Karsten Zimmermann +2 more
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Energies, 2023 The development of the high-tech sector has so far been studied within the cities, leaving their functioning within the special economic zones in the context of metropolitan belonging unexplored.
Grzegorz Kinelski +5 more
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Imagens das contradições nas regiões metropolitanas da Paraíba
Confins, 2021 This essay makes a commented analysis of images that present contradictions between the norms and urban practices in the metropolitan regions of the state of Paraiba.
Júlia Diniz de Oliveira
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022 This article engages governance visions for green urbanism and sustainability through the concept of “industrial regionalism”. Bringing together emerging research on the importance of manufacturing to inclusive economies and critiques of “methodological ...
Mark Pendras, Yonn Dierwechter
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Coupling of urbanization and eco-environmental quality in the evolution of human-environment relationships in China’s metropolitan regions [PDF]
Ziyuan Kexue[Objective] Metropolitan regions, as important carriers of highly concentrated resources and development factors, face numerous ecological and environmental challenges in the process of urbanization. Based on the human-environment relationship, analyzing
LUO Junqiang, ZHANG Zining, ZHANG Peilei, CHANG Genying
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“Metropolregionen” in Germany: The Enforcement of Global City-Regions
Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2015 Under the conditions of globalisation, economic success has been related in politics and theoretical debate to the strength of regions. The concept of the region has therefore also been strengthened in Germany.
Eckardt Frank
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