On poles and centers: Cities in the French Style

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Autore principale: Lise Bourdeau-Lepage
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contents On poles and centers: Cities in the French Style Lise Bourdeau-Lepage Jean-Marie Huriot Estudios Territoriales City center Urban sprawl French cities Employment poles The “multicentric city” is an oversimplified view of the contemporarycity. The term “center” covers a multi-faceted reality. A centeris not only a concentration of activities. It also means domination,power, creation and interaction. Consequently, the “secondarycenters” do not necessarily replicate the main center and they areclearly differentiated. We define the “pole” as a concentration ofactivities, whatever their nature, and the “center” as a concentrationof high-order and strategic activities, so that the so-calledmulticentric cities may be both multipolar and monocentric. Thissuggests what we call the Multipolar-Monocentric hypothesis.The paper sets out theoretical foundations of the pole-center distinction,and shows that the Multipolar-Monocentric hypothesisis supported by the spatial pattern and the specialization ofemployment clusters in a sample of large French cities. 2005 artículo científico 1697-6223 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=50400302 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=504 Urban Public Economics Review application/pdf Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Urban Public Economics Review (España) Num.3
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spellingShingle On poles and centers: Cities in the French Style
Lise Bourdeau-Lepage
Estudios Territoriales
City center
Urban sprawl
French cities
Employment poles
On poles and centers: Cities in the French Style Lise Bourdeau-Lepage Jean-Marie Huriot Estudios Territoriales City center Urban sprawl French cities Employment poles The “multicentric city” is an oversimplified view of the contemporarycity. The term “center” covers a multi-faceted reality. A centeris not only a concentration of activities. It also means domination,power, creation and interaction. Consequently, the “secondarycenters” do not necessarily replicate the main center and they areclearly differentiated. We define the “pole” as a concentration ofactivities, whatever their nature, and the “center” as a concentrationof high-order and strategic activities, so that the so-calledmulticentric cities may be both multipolar and monocentric. Thissuggests what we call the Multipolar-Monocentric hypothesis.The paper sets out theoretical foundations of the pole-center distinction,and shows that the Multipolar-Monocentric hypothesisis supported by the spatial pattern and the specialization ofemployment clusters in a sample of large French cities. 2005 artículo científico 1697-6223 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=50400302 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=504 Urban Public Economics Review application/pdf Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Urban Public Economics Review (España) Num.3
title On poles and centers: Cities in the French Style
topic Estudios Territoriales
City center
Urban sprawl
French cities
Employment poles
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=50400302