Topological ordered C- (resp. I-)spaces and generalized metric spaces

The following result due to Hanai, Morita, and Stone is well known: Let f be a closed continuous map of a metric space X onto a topological space Y. Then the following statements are equivalent: (i) Y satisfies the first countability axiom; (ii) for each y ∈ Y , f − 1 { y } has a compact boundary in X; (iii) Y is metrizable. s article we obtain several related results in the setting of topological ordered spaces. In particular we investigate the upper and lower topologies of metrizable topological ordered spaces which are both C- and I-spaces in the sense of Priestley.