Accessibility metrics have been increasingly employed as a tool to explore the social impacts of transport systems and policies. However, few empirical studies accessibility involve comparisons between cities from countries with different levels development, in particular, across Global South North. This paper attempts bridge this gap by focusing on two very distinct, but similarly sized, large...

The last two decades have witnessed an increasing focus on the role of cities and regions at global, European, national and sub-national levels. In terms of thinking within the European Union (EU) regions, including city-regions/metropolitan regions, are seen as playing a key role in Europe’s development. In fact, it is widely asserted that cities have been, and in the future will be, the engin...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether medical graduates who spent their intern year at a non-metropolitan hospital were more likely to practise outside metropolitan areas on completion of training than were interns in metropolitan hospitals. DESIGN Retrospective follow-up of doctors who held year-long internships at a non-metropolitan hospital and interns from metropolitan hospitals. SETTING Balla...

Peri-urban areas are typically associated with high growth regions that have witnessed rapid landscape changes on the peripheries of metropolitan and urban areas with a particular focus on high amenity areas. These former rural lands adjacent to the edges of urban areas into which they would typically expands or influences have been described as peri-urban areas (‘peri’: around, about or beyond...

Urban land cover is one of the fastest global growing land cover types which permanently alters land surface properties and atmospheric interactions, often initiating an urban heat island effect. Urbanisation comprises a number of land cover changes within metropolitan regions. However, these complexities have been somewhat neglected in temperature analysis studies of the urban heat island effe...

.............................................................................................................................. 5 INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................... 6 1. METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE: A REVIEW OF ARGUMENTS............................ 8 1.1 The debate on metropolitan governance: three waves ...

This report provides a comprehensive overview of 1990 and 2000 neighborhood dissimilarity indices measured for Blacks and Whites, Asians and Whites, and Hispanics and Whites among the nation’s 318 metropolitan areas, as well as 1220 places with populations exceeding 25,000 in 2000. Unlike most earlier studies which measure segregation on the basis of census tracts, this study measures segregati...