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Metropolitan Space (metropolitan + space)
Selected AbstractsCities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840,1930 by Richard DennisTHE CANADIAN GEOGRAPHER/LE GEOGRAPHE CANADIEN, Issue 1 2009PETER G. GOHEEN No abstract is available for this article. [source] ISTANBUL'S BOSTANS: A MILLENNIUM OF MARKET GARDENS,GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Issue 3 2004PAUL J. KALDJIAN ABSTRACT. For centuries, a network of market gardens throughout Istanbul provisioned the city with fresh vegetables. These bostans and their gardeners held a respected place in Istanbul life, contributing to the city's food and employment needs. Today, only fragments remain. Massive urban development, intense competition for metropolitan space, modernization, changing institutions and laws, and the global industrialization of food have threatened this tradition with extinction. But in spite of the overwhelming forces behind their demise, some of Istanbul's bostans persist. Efforts to support and promote the gardens, and to draw from the expertise and experience of their gardeners, are emerging. From a historical perspective, this article examines Istanbul's bostans to understand their meaning and contribution to the city's people and landscape. [source] The Geography of Opportunity and Unemployment: An Integrated Model of Residential Segregation and Spatial MismatchJOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, Issue 4 2005Michael Howell-Moroney Using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) data, I estimate a two-step model that separately models the effects of segregation and spatial mismatch. The first model predicts educational attainment as a function of exposure to residential segregation as a youth. The second model predicts unemployment probability as an adult as a function of educational attainment and spatial mismatch. The empirical results show that segregation does have discernable effects on educational attainment for blacks, but not for whites. I also find that spatial mismatch affects unemployment probability for blacks, but such an effect is hardly present for whites. A partial equilibrium analysis using predictions from the models shows that large changes in either segregation levels or the central city/suburban distribution of the black population would yield only moderate decreases in unemployment probability for the black population overall. Yet despite small predicted effects, these results should be viewed with caution because the general equilibrium effects of a large scale movement of blacks and whites across metropolitan space are largely impossible to predict with current data. [source] A typology of community opportunity and vulnerability in metropolitan Australia,PAPERS IN REGIONAL SCIENCE, Issue 1 2001Robert Stimson Socio-economic performance; community opportunity and vulnerability; metropolitan regions Abstract. A multivariate model using hierarchical clustering and discriminant analysis is used to identify clusters of community opportunity and community vulnerability across Australia's mega metropolitan regions. Variables used in the model measure aspects of structural economic change, occupational change, human capital, income, unemployment, family/household disadvantage, and housing stress. A nine-cluster solution is used to categorise communities across metropolitan space. Significant between-city variations in the incidence of these clusters of opportunity and vulnerability are apparent, suggesting the emergence of marked differentiation between Australia's mega metropolitan regions in their adjustments to changing economic and social conditions. [source] | ||||||||||