US cities
Cross sectional growth in US cities from 1990 to 2000
... thriving cities attract ...of US cities (Glaeser and Shapiro, ...missing. Cities that are more spread out have both more developable land (so that there is space for the construction of new ...
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Asymmetries in New Keynesian Phillips Curves: Evidence from US Cities
... However, a shortcoming of this approach was to treat the entire economy homogenously. Put another way, centralized monetary policy is optimal for all of the economy’s ‘city- states’. In the past decade, or so, has come ...
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The "Paradox of Diversity": economic evidence from US cities 1980-2010
... To evaluate the impact of social diversity on the average wage of 16- to 64-year-old workers, we control for their educational attainment, average age (and its square), share of female, share of Hispanics and share of ...
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The spatial distribution of US cities
... The US Census Bureau uses the generic term ‘incorporated place’ to refer to a type of governmental unit incorporated under state law as a city, town (except the New England states, New York, and Wisconsin), ...
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Influence of exposure differences on city-to-city heterogeneity in PM2.5-mortality associations in US cities
... represented cities with similar exposure distributions based on residential infiltration and in-vehicle commuting ...94 cities. These cities all had populations over ...cluster cities based on ...
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The effect of primary organic particles on emergency hospital admissions among the elderly in 3 US cities
... In the first stage we fit a case-crossover analysis to the data from all cities. In a case-crossover design, each case acts as their own control, thus eliminating confounding by any personal characteristics that ...
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A nonparametric estimation of the local Zipf exponent for all US Cities
... different cities in the sample, and information on boundaries is only available for the largest cities in some ...the cities with the greatest growth rates to control for the most extreme cases, ...
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A National Study of Neighborhood Safety, Outdoor Play, Television Viewing, and Obesity in Preschool Children
... large US cities was that mothers’ perception of neighborhood safety was related to their children’s TV viewing time but not to their children’s outdoor play time, BMI, or obesity ...
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Particulate air pollution and survival in a COPD cohort
... The relative risks of mortality for all our four outcomes are higher than has been reported in general population stud- ies such as the six city study (RR = 1.088, 95% CI: 1.03– 1.13)[32]. This may be due to the focus on ...
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Big data analytics and mining for effective visualization and trends forecasting of crime data
... In this paper a series of state-of-the-art big data analytics and visualization techniques were utilized to analyze crime big data from three US cities, which allowed us to identify patterns and ...
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Influenza epidemics, seasonality, and the effects of cold weather on cardiac mortality
... 48 US cities to determine how much of the seasonal pattern in cardiac deaths could be explained by influenza epidemics, whether that allowed a more parsimonious control for season than traditional spline ...
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Urban spatial order: street network orientation, configuration, and entropy
... American cities lie near each other in three adjacent clusters (red, orange, and blue), which contain grid-like—and almost exclusively North ...gridded cities like Chicago, Portland, Vancouver, and ...
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Agents with dycotomic goals which generate a rank-size distribution
... of cities in which resources are equally dis- tributed: for instance one unit of resource in each ...More cities signify more available resources for the entire ...N cities of size equals one and ...
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On the Past and the Future of the Urban Agriculture Movement: Reflections in Tribute to Jac Smit
... Farms in the city still sounded like a contradiction only 10 years ago when several of us, including Jac Smit, compiled an urban agriculture “primer” for the Community Food Security Coalition’s Urban Agriculture ...
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Governing Climate Change Risks: Subnational Climate Policies in Brazil
... The policies of Belo Horizonte, Recife, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo set concrete targets for reducing GHG emissions and deadlines. The policy of Belo Horizonte (n. 10.175/2011) establishes the reduction of 30% of the ...
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US city size distribution and space
... of US Core Based Statistical Areas using subsets of ...of cities based on geographical proximity are significantly more consistent with the Pareto distribution than are random ...
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From smart cities to wise cities
... A fifth concern relates to the invasion of privacy. The large scale sensing of data about people creates profound civil liberty concerns. The arrival of Big Data in urban management only amplifies this worry. Enthusiasts ...
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Cities at the centre: core cities 2002
... Excellent transport and communications links are vital to achieving global competitiveness and social inclusion and, therefore, the ability and capacity of the Core Cities to connect with their regions, the rest ...
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How can we get Iraq- and Afghanistan-deployed US Veterans to participate in health-related research? Findings from a national focus group study
... All US Veterans who were dis- charged from the military under any condition other than ‘ dishonorable ’ may qualify for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits; those who were injured during service or fall ...
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AP Human Geography Audit.docx
... Historical look at cities-students will compare the growth/decline patterns of five cites, Rome, Beijing, Paris, London, and Cairo. Students will identify the historical factors that led to the growth/decline of ...
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