Temperature Variability Differs in Urban Agroecosystems across Two Metropolitan Regions

Influencing Variables on Urban Spatial Structure in Metropolitan Regions; a Study in the Contemporary Theoretical Approaches and Practices

Future Studies Urban bubble in Tehran metropolitan

  Urbanization bubble is a new concept in urban planning issues for examining sustainability at various levels of social, economic, environmental, and management. So far, no common definition provided for urbanization bubble that indicate a lack of research in this field. This research aimed at assessing futures studies of urbanization bubble in Tehran metropolitan with focus on scenario plann...

Comparing metropolitan regions

Making comparisons between metropolitan regions around the world is fashionable. Newman and Kenworthy's Cities and automobile dependency (1989) was one of the first attempts to collect data from cities around the world and make systematic comparisons (although highly criticized: see, for example, Gomez-Ibanez, 1991). Recent books (Simmond and Hack, 2000; Susteren, 2005) and even a summer 2007 e...

Application of Polycentric Urban Region concept in Iran’s Metropolitan Areas

Application of Polycentric Urban Regions concept in Iran’s Metropolitan Areas Theoretical Origin: Looking at the research on polycentric urban regions, two approaches can be distinguished: The first approach: looking upon the similarity of a polycentric urban region with geographic theories centered around polycentric cities or some others as attitudes including garden cities, urban networks ...

Mortality after acute myocardial infarction is lower in metropolitan regions than in non-metropolitan regions.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To compare in-hospital mortality for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) between metropolitan and non-metropolitan hospitals after adjustment for patients' severity; to examine the role of the use of effective cardiac medications in the possible mortality difference between these types of hospital. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING 47 acute public hospitals in metrop...