PAGE A22 Metropolitan WITH NEW SETTLEMENT, More for 9/11 Workers More than 9,000 ground zero workers eligible for a settlement of up to $712.5 million from the city over health claims now stand to get another $47 million in a separate settlement with the Port Authority.
That and my briny mouthful reminded me that I was not on some afterthought of a river, but a majestic arm of the Atlantic Ocean, an epic salt-water estuary whose discovery by Henry Hudson in 1609 opened up the entire region — what we now call the metropolitan area — to settlement and commerce.
The growth of these "peri-metropolitan" patterns of settlement has become a strong feature of contemporary New South Wales and is associated with new demographic imbalances and service needs.
The Colombo Metropolitan Region dominates the settlement system of Sri Lanka.
In the first settlement, the Metropolitan police last year paid more than £400,000 to a woman who discovered by chance that the father of her son was an undercover police officer.
The influence of planning practices inspired to the European Spatial Development Framework on metropolitan regions featuring traditional settlement patterns, socioeconomic disparities and an imbalanced governance system has been discussed in the case for Rome, a city experiencing dispersed expansion and economic growth at the periphery of Europe.
They are located in 16 community health services in areas of significant refugee settlement in metropolitan and rural Victoria.
Zagreb's metropolitan area encompasses 341 additional settlements and, by the year 2001, the population of the area had reached 978,161; approximately 60% of Zagreb County's residents live in Zagreb's metropolitan area, as does about 41% of Croatia's urban population.
The settlements of Spandau and Köpenick, now metropolitan districts, preceded the establishment of Berlin-Kölln; fortified settlements at both sites date to the 8th century.
This paper examines the demographic process of spontaneous settlements expansion, the income and employment characteristics of the households, and the dominant land and housing tenure types of spontaneous settlements on the Tehran metropolitan fringe.
