Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: de Goei, B.
Author-Name-Last: de Goei
Author-Name-First: Bastiaan
Author-Name: Burger, M.J.
Author-Name-Last: Burger
Author-Name-First: Martijn
Author-Person: pbu126
Author-Name: van Oort, F.G.
Author-Name-Last: van Oort
Author-Name-First: Frank
Author-Person: poo11
Author-Name: Kitson, M.
Author-Name-Last: Kitson
Author-Name-First: Michael
Title: Functional Polycentrism and Urban Network Development in the Greater South East UK: Evidence from Commuting Patterns, 1981-2001
Abstract: In contemporary literature on changing urban systems, it is often argued that the traditional central place conceptualisation is outdated and should be replaced by a network view that emphasises the increasing criss-crossing pattern of interdependencies between spatial units. This paper tests for urban network development by looking at commuting patterns in the Greater South East UK. The analysis is based on census commuting interaction data for three points in time during the past three decades (1981, 1991, and 2001). Although the empirical results indicate that the Greater South East UK can still not be characterized as a polycentric urban region or integrated urban network, there is some evidence for urban network development at the local, intra-urban, level as well as a decentralization of the system at the regional, inter-urban, level.
Creation-Date: 2009-06-25
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/16213/ERS-2009-038-ORG.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:eureri
Number: ERS-2009-038-ORG
Classification-JEL: J61, M, M13, O18, O32, P25
Keywords: Greater South East, United Kingdom, commuting, gravity model, urban networks
Handle: RePEc:ems:eureri:16213