How Acculturation Influences Attitudes about Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Care among Chinese Living in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia by Fu-Ming Chiang, Ying-Wei Wang, Jyh-Gang Hsieh

“…Methods: Our researchers recruited Chinese adults who could communicate in Mandarin and lived in metropolitan areas in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia. …”
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An ecological analysis of walkability and housing affordability in Canada: Moderation by city size and neighbourhood property type composition by Chelsea D. Christie, Christine M. Friedenreich, Jennifer E. Vena, Dany Doiron, Gavin R. McCormack

“…We linked built environment data from the 2016 Canadian Active Living Environments (Can-ALE) index with neighbourhood-level structural home characteristics and sociodemographic data from the 2016 Canadian census for 33,026 neighbourhoods across 31 Census Metropolitan Areas. We used multilevel linear regression models to estimate covariate-adjusted associations between neighbourhood walkability and natural-log median home values and tested city size and neighbourhood property type composition as moderators. …”
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Youth homicides and socio-spatial segregation in Londrina<br>Homicídios de jovens e segregação socioespacial em Londrina by Dione Lolis

“…The article also shows the incidence of deaths in younger age groups who live in areas of exclusion of the capitals, metropolitan areas and lately, in smaller cities, as found in Londrina. …”
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Understanding China’s Urban Rainstorm Waterlogging and Its Potential Governance by Feng Kong, Shao Sun, Tianjie Lei

“…Then, this paper gives policy recommendations on how to deal with the urban rainstorm waterlogging disasters, which include improving the defense standards, encouraging social participation, popularizing the construction of sponge cities, perfecting the monitoring and early warning system, strengthening the scientific planning of cities, strengthening the ability of dealing with catastrophes in metropolitan areas, the overall planning of cross-regional responses, and enhancing the awareness of decision makers. …”
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Spatiotemporal Patterns and Socioeconomic Influences on Host Participation in Short-Term Rental Markets: Airbnb in San Francisco by Avijit Sarkar, James B. Pick, Shaista Jabeen

“…Locationally, San Francisco’s Airbnb hotspots are not located in the city’s core, unlike other major Airbnb markets in metropolitan areas. Instead, such hotspots are in the city’s northeastern neighborhoods around ethnic enclaves, in close proximity to POIs that are frequented by visitors, and have a higher proportion of hotel and lodging employment and lower median household income. …”
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SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS OF SYRIAN IMMIGRANT POPULATION PROBLEM IN FATIH - ISTANBUL by Ömer Bilen, Mehmet Gür, Ersan Koç, Ebru Kamacı Karahan

“…Syrian refugees were unequally distributed or dispersed not only in leading metropolitan areas of western Turkey but also in many neighbouring cities in the southeast. …”
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Determining spatial disparities and similarities regarding heat exposure, green provision, and social structure of urban areas - A study on the city district level in the Ruhr area... by Florian Klopfer, Antonia Pfeiffer

“…For our study, we consider eight cities located in the densely populated and historically highly segregated Ruhr area in Western Germany, which is one of the largest metropolitan areas in Europe with a heterogeneous distribution of socio-spatial problems, economic potential, heat stress, and green infrastructures. …”
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Assessment and Mitigation of Electric Vehicle Charging Demand Impact to Transformer Aging for an Apartment Complex by Shin-Ki Hong, Sung Gu Lee, Myungchin Kim

“…In apartment complexes, which have emerged as a common residential type in metropolitan areas and highly populated districts, high charging demand could result in substantial stress to distribution networks. …”
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Examining Vegetation of Built Landscapes and Their Relationship to Existing Ecosystems by Margaret Livingston, David Myers

“…Furthermore, these built landscapes in metropolitan areas often markedly influence an inhabitant's impressions of a region's biotic foundation and sense of place. …”
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Modelling the spatial spread of COVID-19 in a German district using a diffusion model by Moritz Schäfer, Peter Heidrich, Thomas Götz

“…This district can be seen as a typical middle-European region, characterized by its (mainly) rural nature and daily commuter movements towards metropolitan areas. A basic reaction-diffusion model used for spatial COVID spread, which includes compartments for susceptibles, exposed, infected, recovered, and the total population, is used to describe the spatio-temporal spread of infections. …”
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Prevalence and sociodemographic patterns of physical activity among Bangladeshi young adults by Riaz Uddin, Asaduzzaman Khan, Nicola W Burton

“…Additional population-based studies, including regional and metropolitan areas, and using objective measurement, are needed to understand the physical activity patterns of Bangladeshi young adults.…”
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The Influence of Ring Roads on Traffic Characteristics in Urban Cities by Abid zaid Al-Mousawi Hassan, Vein Leong lee, Al-Jameel Hamid

“…The utilization of ring roads also gives rise to numerous novel challenges, particularly in metropolitan areas. The predominant issue lies in the unregulated expansion of houses (urban sprawl) and inadequate public transportation. …”
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Hybridisation Concept of Light Vehicles Utilising an Electrified Planetary Gear Set by Michael Engels, Moritz Jakoby, Timm Fahrbach, Jakob Andert

“…However, in the world’s most densely populated metropolitan areas, small and lightweight vehicles are key for the mobility of millions. …”
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Еconomic principles and ecological consequences of land use in urban and suburban areas by V. Nazarenko

“…Size of the urban land area and metropolitan areas are where most of differences are. While the geographical boundaries of the core city itself or the downtown areas produced similar results, regardless of the city geographical or economic development levels. …”
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Trap of weights: The reuse of weights in the floating catchment area (FCA) methods to measuring accessibility [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Lina Zhang

“…Shanghai is a case study that provides lessons on using big data to measure accessibility in metropolitan areas. Results: Geographic weights can not only mitigate the impact of the distance decay coefficients, but can also eliminate model features, which reduces the performance of the M2SFCA's supply decay and the 3SFCA's population demand adjustment in accessibility results. …”
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A National Snapshot of Social Determinants of Health Documentation in Emergency Departments by Caitlin R. Ryus, Alexander T. Janke, Rachel L. Granovsky, Michael A. Granovsky

“…Larger EDs, those in metropolitan areas, academic centers, and government-run hospitals were more likely to report Z codes. …”
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Examining interaction effects among land-use policies to reduce household vehicle travel: An exploratory analysis by Kwangyul Choi, Robert Paterson

“…Future research should include data from a broader array of metropolitan areas and incorporate additional predictor variables that were unavailable for this analysis.…”
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Insecticide resistance of Miami-Dade Culex quinquefasciatus populations and initial field efficacy of a new resistance-breaking adulticide formulation. by Isik Unlu, Eva A Buckner, Johanna Medina, Chalmers Vasquez, Aimee Cabrera, Ana L Romero-Weaver, Daviela Ramirez, Natalie L Kendziorski, Kyle J Kosinski, T J Fedirko, Leigh Ketelsen, Chelsea Dorsainvil, Alden S Estep

“…Miami-Dade County, Florida is part of one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States, supports Cx. quinquefasciatus year-round, and recently experienced over 60 human cases of WNV during one outbreak. …”
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Spatial Driven Effects of Multi-Dimensional Urbanization on Carbon Emissions: A Case Study in Chengdu-Chongqing Urban Agglomeration by Jie Chang, Pingjun Sun, Guoen Wei

“…The following are the main results: (1) The TCE in CUA increased by 3.918 million tons at an average annual growth of 6.86%; CUA ranked last among China’s national strategic urban agglomerations in terms of TCE, PCI, and ECI. (2) High carbon emission values were concentrated in the Chengdu and Chongqing metropolitan areas, presenting a spatial feature of “Core-Periphery” gradient decay. (3) Nearly 30% of the agglomeration had carbon emission growth at low rates, with the growth cores concentrated in the main urban areas of Chengdu and Chongqing. (4) The “Low-Low” positive correlation was the main correlation type between multi-dimensional urbanization and carbon emissions and was distributed mainly in mountainous areas (e.g., Leshan and Ya’an). (5) Among the urbanization dimensions, the impacts on carbon emissions in local and adjacent areas exhibited varying levels of spatial heterogeneity. …”
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Navigating congested cities : understanding urban mobility using new data sources by C̦olak, Serdar

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