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2. Spatial Trends of Towns in Europe: The Performance of Regions with Low Degree of Urbanisation.
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Servillo, Loris and Paolo Russo, Antonio
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CITIES & towns ,URBANIZATION ,GEOGRAPHY ,POPULATION ,PERFORMANCES - Abstract
The paper contributes to the understanding of socio-spatial trends and urban systems in Europe, with a specific focus on smaller settlements. First, a morphological delimitation of urban settlements as geographical base is used to identify the different settlement structures that characterise regions across Europe. Secondly, an analysis of population and GDP performances of NUTS 3 regions for the 29 countries of the European space (growth rates in 2001-2011) provides evidence of the variety of territorial phenomena that characterise smaller-settlement regions across Europe. Finally, the paper highlights the diversity and complexity of urbanisation structures in Europe and how general trends observed at larger scale are articulated locally according to prevailing structures of urbanisation. It shows the character of 'embeddedness' of smaller settlements within urban systems and territorial structures and how the socio-economic performances of smaller-settlement regions are defined by a combination of macro trends, national contextualisation, local dynamics and regional path dependency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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3. Demographic Change in European Towns 2001-11: A Cross-National Multi-Level Analysis.
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Smith, Ian
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CITIES & towns ,DEMOGRAPHIC change ,EUROPEANS ,POPULATION ,URBANIZATION ,REGRESSION analysis ,EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
The unique contribution of this paper is to empirically compare and contrast demographic change in settlements with a population between 5,000 and under 50,000 (defined as towns) across different national urban systems in Europe with common definitions for the first time. The analysis uses a new data set based on harmonised small area data and harmonised morphological definitions of what a town is. The paper hypothesises first that a general model of demographic growth can be applied across national urban systems and secondly that regional demographic change is a significant predictor of demographic change in towns nested within those regions within this generalised model. A fixed effect multi-level regression analysis tests the importance of town-level and regional factors among towns from five national systems but also within two individual national urban systems. The findings suggest that national context still matters and within some national systems, regional context also strongly predicts demographic change in towns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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4. Beyond Polycentricity: Does Stronger Integration Between Cities in Polycentric Urban Regions Improve Performance?
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Meijers, Evert, Cardoso, Rodrigo, and Hoogerbrugge, Marloes
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URBANIZATION ,TRANSPORTATION ,METROPOLITAN government ,PLURALISM ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
Abstract: A quarter of the European population lives in ‘polycentric urban regions’ (PURs): clusters of historically and administratively distinct but proximate and well‐connected cities of relatively similar size. This paper explores whether tighter integration can increase agglomeration benefits at the PUR‐level. We provide the first comprehensive list of European PURs (117 in total), establish their level of functional, institutional and cultural integration and measure whether this affects their performance. ‘Performance’ is defined as the extent to which urbanisation economies have developed, proxied by the presence of metropolitan functions. In this first‐ever cross‐sectional analysis of PURs we find that while there is evidence for all dimensions of integration having a positive effect, particularly functional integration has great significance. Regarding institutional integration, it appears that having some form of metropolitan co‐operation is more important than its exact shape. Theoretically, our results substantiate the assumption that networks may substitute for proximity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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5. Identifying and Classifying Small and Medium Sized Towns in Europe.
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Russo, Antonio Paolo, Serrano Giné, David, Pérez Albert, Maria Yolanda, and Brandajs, Fiammetta
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CITIES & towns ,METROPOLITAN areas ,GEOMATICS ,URBANIZATION ,MORPHOLOGY - Abstract
This paper provides a first attempt at the construction of a unified, homogeneous inventory of different classes of urban settlements in the European space, building on the approach of international institutions such as OECD and the EU in relation to larger urban areas and extending it to the specific challenge presented by smaller settlements. Its objective is twofold. The first is to address the fundamental empirical problem that was central to the development of the ESPON 2013 project 'Small and Medium sized Towns in their Functional Territorial Context' (TOWN), that is the proper geographic identification of different classes of urban settlements. The second is to introduce one basic classification of urban settlements, and two more refined typologies of small and medium sized towns (SMST). These typologies are used to provide a first impression of territorial structures of urbanisation throughout Europe, further elaborated in functional terms in the TOWN project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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