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A '''metropolitan area''' or '''metro''' is a region consisting of a densely populated [[core city|urban core]] and its less-populated surrounding territories sharing [[Industry (economics)|industries]], [[commercial area]]s, [[transport infrastructure|transport network]], [[infrastructure]]s and [[housing]].<ref>Squires, G. Ed. Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences, & Policy Responses. The Urban Institute Press (2002)</ref> A metro area usually comprises multiple [[jurisdictions]] and [[municipalities]]: [[neighborhoods]], [[townships]], [[boroughs]], [[cities]], [[town]]s, [[exurbs]], [[suburbs]], [[counties]], [[districts]], and even [[state (polity)|state]]s and [[nation]]s like the [[eurodistrict]]s. As social, economic and political institutions have changed, metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Mark |first1=M. |last2=Katz |first2=B |last3=Rahman |first3=S. |last4=Warren |first4=D. |url=https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_metropolicy_fullreport.pdf |title=MetroPolicy: Shaping A New Federal Partnership for a Metropolitan Nation |publisher=Brookings Institution |date=2008 |pages=4–103}}</ref> | A '''metropolitan area''' or '''metro''' is a region consisting of a densely populated [[core city|urban core]] and its less-populated surrounding territories sharing [[Industry (economics)|industries]], [[commercial area]]s, [[transport infrastructure|transport network]], [[infrastructure]]s and [[housing]].<ref>Squires, G. Ed. Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences, & Policy Responses. The Urban Institute Press (2002)</ref> A metro area usually comprises multiple [[jurisdictions]] and [[municipalities]]: [[neighborhoods]], [[townships]], [[boroughs]], [[cities]], [[town]]s, [[exurbs]], [[suburbs]], [[counties]], [[districts]], and even [[state (polity)|state]]s and [[nation]]s like the [[eurodistrict]]s. As social, economic and political institutions have changed, metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Mark |first1=M. |last2=Katz |first2=B |last3=Rahman |first3=S. |last4=Warren |first4=D. |url=https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_metropolicy_fullreport.pdf |title=MetroPolicy: Shaping A New Federal Partnership for a Metropolitan Nation |publisher=Brookings Institution |date=2008 |pages=4–103}}</ref> | ||
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A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing.[1] A metro area usually comprises multiple jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships, boroughs, cities, towns, exurbs, suburbs, counties, districts, and even states and nations like the eurodistricts. As social, economic and political institutions have changed, metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions.[2]
Metropolitan areas include satellite cities, towns and intervening rural areas that are socioeconomically tied to the urban core, typically measured by commuting patterns.[3] Most metropolitan areas are anchored by one core city such as Paris metropolitan area (Paris), Mumbai Metropolitan Region (Mumbai (Bombay)), and New York metropolitan area (New York City). In some cases metropolitan areas have multiple centers of close to equal importance, such as Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area (Dallas and Fort Worth), Islamabad–Rawalpindi metropolitan area (Islamabad and Rawalpindi), the Rhine-Ruhr in Germany and the Randstad in the Netherlands.
In the United States, the concept of the metropolitan statistical area has gained prominence. Metropolitan areas may themselves be part of larger megalopolises. For urban centres outside metropolitan areas, that generate a similar attraction at smaller scale for their region, the concept of the regiopolis and respectively regiopolitan area or regio was introduced by German professors in 2006.[4] In the United States, the term micropolitan statistical area is used.
References
- ↑ Squires, G. Ed. Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences, & Policy Responses. The Urban Institute Press (2002)
- ↑ Mark, M.; Katz, B; Rahman, S.; Warren, D. (2008). "MetroPolicy: Shaping A New Federal Partnership for a Metropolitan Nation" (PDF). Brookings Institution. pp. 4–103.
- ↑ "Definition of Urban Terms" (PDF). demographia.com. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Iris Reuther (FG Stadt- und Regionalplanung, Universität Kassel): Presentation "Regiopole Rostock". 11 December 2008, retrieved 13 June 2009 (pdf).