Population Matters: Identifying Metropolitan Sub-Centers from Diachronic Density-Distance Curves, 1960-2010

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/12/4653" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/12/4653</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10124653" target="_blank" >10.3390/su10124653</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Population Matters: Identifying Metropolitan Sub-Centers from Diachronic Density-Distance Curves, 1960-2010

Original language description

The present study illustrates a simplified procedure identifying population sub-centers over 50 years in three Southern European cities (Barcelona, Rome, Athens) with the aim to define and characterize progressive shifts from mono-centric structures towards a polycentric spatial configuration of (growing) metropolitan regions. This procedure is based on a spatially-explicit, local-scale analysis of the standardized residuals from a log-linear model assessing the relationship between population concentration and the distance from a central place in each metropolitan region, under the hypotheses that (i) a mono-centric spatial structure is characterized by a linear relationship between the two variables and that (ii) population sub-centers-considered early signals of a more polycentric regional structure-are characterized by high and positive regression residuals. Results of this study indicate that the three cities have experienced distinctive urbanization waves influencing the overall metropolitan configuration, with variable impact on the original mono-centric structure. Population sub-centers include (i) peri-urban municipalities around the central city and more remote towns situated in rural districts (Barcelona), (ii) scattered towns at variable distances (20-30 km) from the central city (Rome), (iii) fringe municipalities and peri-urban locations in flat districts, 10-20 km away from the central city (Athens). These results may indicate a distinctive evolution path toward polycentric development in the three cities, more evident in Barcelona and Rome and less evident in Athens. The proposed methodology can be generalized and adapted to discriminate population from employment sub-centers in metropolitan regions all over Europe.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

<a href="/en/project/LO1415" target="_blank" >LO1415: CzechGlobe 2020 – Development of the Centre of Global Climate Change Impacts Studies</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability

ISSN

2071-1050

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

4653

UT code for WoS article

000455338100319

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85058017021