Everything about Metropolitan

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: MetropolitanA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Land use/land cover change and its impact on surface urban heat island and urban thermal comfort in a metropolitan cityInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: HousingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas: A Theoretical InquiryCited 3,949 times
5. Go sideways: MetroA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Green LineA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas: A Theoretical Inquiry

  Vincent Ostrom, Charles M. Tiebout, Robert Warren · 1961 · American Political Science Review · 3,949 citations

• Incidence Proportions of Brain Metastases in Patients Diagnosed (1973 to 2001) in the Metropolitan Detroit Cancer Surveillance System

  Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, Andrew E. Sloan, Faith G. Davis · 2004 · Journal of Clinical Oncology · 1,491 citations

• Housing Segregation, Negro Employment, and Metropolitan Decentralization

  John F. Kain · 1968 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1,444 citations

• Urban Ecological Systems: Linking Terrestrial Ecological, Physical, and Socioeconomic Components of Metropolitan Areas

  S. T. A. Pickett, M. L. Cadenasso, J. M. Grove · 2001 · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 1,133 citations

• Prevalence of Congenital Heart Defects in Metropolitan Atlanta, 1998-2005

  Mark D. Reller, Matthew J. Strickland, Tiffany Riehle-Colarusso · 2008 · The Journal of Pediatrics · 1,064 citations

• The Cost of Inequality: Metropolitan Structure and Violent Crime

  Judith R. Blau, Peter M. Blau · 1982 · American Sociological Review · 1,011 citations

• A quantitative assessment of source contributions to inhalable particulate matter pollution in metropolitan Boston

  George D. Thurston, John D. Spengler · 1985 · Atmospheric Environment (1967) · 963 citations

• Prevalence of Autism in a US Metropolitan Area

  Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp, Catherine Rice, Tanya Karapurkar · 2003 · JAMA · 889 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Land use/land cover change and its impact on surface urban heat island and urban thermal comfort in a metropolitan city

  Shahfahad, Mohd Waseem Naikoo, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam · 2022 · Urban Climate · 235 citations

• Spatio-temporal evolution and driving factors of eco-environmental quality based on RSEI in Chang-Zhu-Tan metropolitan circle, central China

  Yi Zhang, Jiyun She, Xiangren Long · 2022 · Ecological Indicators · 187 citations

• Creation of memory–memory entanglement in a metropolitan quantum network

  Jian-Long Liu, Xi-Yu Luo, Yong Yu · 2024 · Nature · 160 citations

• Urban green roofs promote metropolitan biodiversity: A comparative case study

  E.I.F. Wooster, R. Fleck, F. Torpy · 2022 · Building and Environment · 150 citations

• Quantifying the contribution of diminishing green spaces and urban sprawl to urban heat island effect in a rapidly urbanizing metropolitan city of Pakistan

  Salman Arshad, Sajid Rashid Ahmad, Sawaid Abbas · 2022 · Land Use Policy · 147 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕HousingUnited States. Bureau of the Census · 1942
• 1990 census of populationUnited States. Bureau of the Census · 1992
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. FrankweilerE. L. Konigsburg, Jill Clayburgh · 1967
• 📕Urban atlas, tract data for standard metropolitan statistical areasUnited States. Bureau of the Census · 1974
• 📕1990 census of housingUnited States. Bureau of the Census · 1992
• TimbuktuPaul Auster · 1999
• In the Presence of the Enemy (Inspector Lynley Mystery)Elizabeth George, Elizabeth George · 1996
• The new urban sociologyMark Gottdiener, Ray Hutchison · 1994

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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• Green Line Look up green line or greenline in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Green Line may refer to: Green Line (France), the German occupation line in France…
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• Blue Line Look up blue line or blueline in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blue Line or Blueline may refer to: Blue Line (Lagos Transit), Lagos, Nigeria Blue Line…
• E-line E Line or Line E may refer to: E (New York City Subway service) E (S-train), in Copenhagen, Denmark E Line (RTD), in the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area…
• Railroad police Railroad police or railway police are people responsible for protecting railroad (or railway) properties, facilities, revenue, equipment (train cars and…