Endangered Mountains: Emerging Development Patterns in the Catskill Mountain Region
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چکیده
In the mountains north of New York City a number of cities and towns are being absorbed by the suburbs of one of the largest cities on the planet. The existence of independent communities has created some confusion in terms of classification in the past. Since 1970, Orange County has variously been classified as part of the Newburgh-Middletown Metropolitan Area, the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh Metropolitan Area, as a component county of the New York Consolidated Metropolitan Area, and today as a component of the New York Combined Statistical Area. In 2003, Ulster County was reclassified as metropolitan Kingston, a component of the New York Combined Statistical Area. The increasing trend of suburbanization in the Catskills has led to a number of wider issues in the region.
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