Small area trends are important to understanding developments in the urban cores, because conventional municipal jurisdiction-based analysis is clouded by the effect of large suburban areas that constitute most of the core municipality population.
The Milan metropolitan area counts 7 million inhabitants with 1.3 million residing in the core municipality [ 56].
The orderer of the Barometer, The Finnish National Board of Education, gathers information on the curriculum reform process and the implementation of the core curricula in municipalities and schools.
Tianhe district, east of the Dongshan area, was created in 1985 from parts of the former eastern suburbs, and it is now considered to be one of the core districts of the central municipality.
For municipal politicians as well, speeds and speed limits are part of a wider context of promoting commuting and economic growth, where the economic development of their own municipality is a core political issue.
Each province was divided into three population strata, a) the core area of the capital city (municipality), b) prefectures of other urban areas and c) prefectures of rural areas.
A CMA consists of one or more municipalities that form an urban core greater than 100,000 residents [ 25].
A CMA is a large census-defined geography, formed by one or more adjacent municipalities centred on a population centre (known as the core), and must have a total population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more must live in the core.
An increasing west to east gradient of African ancestry is evident, with a higher African core in the area of Loíza, the municipality with the highest proportion of African ancestry (47.8%).
Relating to this, there were references to the idea that diversity might enable the municipality to focus on its core tasks letting the private sector to take care of the services outside of this very core.
