metropolitan regions as a result of the steady stream of urbanization in industrial period which have occurred during 20th century, become the engine of countries growth and development. in the process of formation and development in these areas, spatial structuring that define through two elements of population and activity with the communication structure interacting between them, has been ef...

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...

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This paper extends the recent empirical literature on the relationship between local decentralization and growth using data from both metropolitan and non-metropolitan regions in the U.S. The analysis utilizes both metropolitan and non-metropolitan regions, and thus avoids the possible selection bias present in previous research. The results for non-metropolitan regions indicate a relatively we...

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...

The paper seeks to identify and assess the polarising, indirect direct favourable influence of Belgrade, as capital largest city in Serbia, development settlements centres within its administrative area, i.e. territory administratively named City Belgrade. includes an analysis demographic trends, including commuting functional morphological changes Belgrade region between 1971 2011. Various ana...