Evert Meijers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5777110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evert Meijers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evert |
| FAMILY NAME | Meijers |
| SIGNATURE | MEIJERS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delft University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0031-6828 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 389 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Media portrayal and location behavior: Crime reporting and house prices in U.S. cities
Media representations of cities shape public perception of them. However, the extent to which these media-driven perceptions subsequently influence individual decisions about where to live has remained underexplored. This study leverages advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to capture media coverage of crime and compare it to actual reported crime. We show that variations in media attention to crime across U.S. cities help explai…
Between suburb and city: Conceptualising interplaces
A conceptual blind spot in prevailing models of metropolitan regions is how to understand urbanisation in secondary localities that evolve to be neither an ideal-typical suburb nor a city. This article foregrounds Nick Phelps’ notion of ‘interplaces’ to provide this missing link in our understanding of metropolisation. Interplaces are defined as localities which are situated in between the conventional conceptual and geographical boundaries of th…
Unequal Political Representation of Core and Periphery: How Regions That Don’t Matter Vote for Parties That Don’t Bother
While many democracies face a ‘geography of discontent’, it is still largely unknown to what extent peripheral regions are underrepresented indeed. This paper analyses the spatial orientation of Dutch political parties and their Members of Parliament (MPs) obtained through counting the geographical toponyms mentioned in their parliamentary questions (2017–2021). Dutch Right‐wing, Liberal, and Conservative parties focus disproportionately more on …
Imagined, emerging and real ‘Chinese dragons’: Analysing the functional coherence of Chinese megaregions
Overcoming fragmentation by strengthening the functional coherence of megaregions is deemed essential to reaping the benefits associated with megaregions.However, few studies have examined whether planned megaregions are functionally coherent.We assess the functional coherence of megaregions from three dimensions: inclusion, integration and consistency.Fifteen government-defined Chinese megaregions are evaluated and qualified.For nine of these ca…
Governing polycentric urban regions
Widely recognized as an empirical reality, an important analytical framework and a normative goal for territorial development policies, polycentric urban regions (PURs) are the subject of concerted international interest among those charged with planning and governing cities and regions. And yet, why does so much research on cities and regions not really engage with the PUR concept? With the aim of renewing debates surrounding the governance of P…
Polycentric urban regions: Conceptualization, identification and implications
This special issue offers a cross-section of state-of-the-art research into ‘polycentric urban regions’: regions characterized by the presence of multiple, more-or-less proximate, centres where there is balanced development among these centres. With the literature increasingly transcending the focus on paradigmatic examples, the papers in this special issue concentrate on three fundamental and complementary questions: How can polycentric urban re…
Friends with benefits: The emergence of the Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Antwerp (ARA) polycentric port region
This paper enacts a dialogue between planning literature on polycentric urban regions (PUR) and port geography literature on multi-port gateways. The main proposition is that polycentric systems are the emergent outcome of the interactions between three dimensions of polycentricity: morphological, functional and institutional. The focus is on the Dutch-Belgian Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) port-industrial region: one of the world's largest co…
Border cities: Out of the shadow
The cities we need: Towards an urbanism guided by human needs satisfaction
This article proposes moving beyond the tyranny of economic imperatives towards a human needs-based framework to assess cities and envision their development. Existing calls for such a transition lack a foundation able to capture the various dimensions of human life in cities, which can be provided by the concept of human needs. We ask whether cities deliver satisfiers that make them good places to cater for the full range of human needs in a sim…
The multiplex relations between cities: A lexicon-based approach to detect urban systems
Cities relate to other cities in many ways, and much scholarly effort goes into uncovering those relationships. Building on the principle that strongly related cities will co-occur frequently in texts, we propose a novel method to classify those toponym co-occurrences using a lexicon-based text-mining method. Millions of webpages are analysed to retrieve how 293 Chinese cities are related in terms of six types: industry, information technology, f…
Information diffusion between Dutch cities: Revisiting Zipf and Pred using a computational social science approach
News travels fast and far, and the general idea is that the spatial extent of news coverage has increased over time. Information flows are always involved in systems of interdependent cities. This is the reason why George Zipf and Allan Pred, both pioneers of the urban systems literature, were eager to obtain data on these relations to understand urban system dynamics. However, because of limited resources in data acquisition, they restricted the…
Breaking with the spatial-cycle model: The shift towards ‘syncurbanization’ in polycentric urban regions
This paper criticizes traditional models of urban–regional expansion, which depart from monocentric ideals of urban core and ring. The original spatial-cycle model (SCM) suggests repeating stages of urbanization, suburbanization, disurbanization and re-urbanization. We reconceptualize the relations between core(s) and ring(s) to test the formation of urban regions under mono-, multi- and polycentric trajectories. The analysis employs local popula…
Metropolisation: The winding road toward the citification of the region
We aim to consolidate the concept of metropolisation as a lens to examine urban region integration in territories characterized by extensive urbanization. Metropolisation is defined as the process through which institutionally, functionally, and spatially fragmented urbanized regions become integrated as coherent metropolitan systems. This novel framework is captured by three notions: inversion, multiplexity, and convergence. Inversion changes th…
Does broadband internet allow cities to ‘borrow size’? Evidence from the Swedish labour market
Borrowed size refers to the idea that small cities near larger metropolitan centres can reap the advantages of large agglomerations, but without the costs of agglomeration. The study explores whether broadband internet helps such smaller cities to enjoy the labour market benefits of a larger city. Using Swedish micro-data from 2007 to 2015, together with unique data on broadband, suggestive evidence is found that broadband indeed allows smaller c…
Struggles and strategies of rural regions in the age of the ‘urban triumph’
Why bright city lights dazzle and illuminate: A cognitive science approach to urban promises
Despite the many uncertainties of life in cities, promises of economic prosperity, social mobility and happiness have fuelled the imagination of generations of urban migrants in search of a better life. Access to jobs, housing and amenities, and fewer restrictions of personal choices are some of the perceived advantages of cities, characterised here as ‘urban promises’. But while discourses celebrating the triumph of cities became increasingly co…
Information Technology and Local Product Variety: Substitution, Complementarity and Spillovers
This paper addresses the interaction between information technology (IT) and agglomeration. The literature distinguishes two types of interactions, namely a substitution effect and a complementarity effect. We conceptualise a third effect, namely a ‘spillover’ mechanism, by which IT allows places in close proximity of large cities to ‘borrow size’ and sustain greater product variety. We test these mechanisms using detailed data on restaurant cuis…
Stretching the concept of ‘borrowed size’
‘Borrowed size’ is an emerging policy concept in several European countries, presenting theoretical potential to explain contemporary urban dynamics unaddressed through conventional urban growth theories that emphasise the role of agglomeration economies. In its original conceptualisation by Alonso, the concept describes and explains the situation that especially smaller cities that are located in a larger ‘megapolitan complex’ do perform better …
The metropolitan name game: The pathways to place naming shaping metropolitan regions
The centrality of metropolitan regions in policy and research does not mean they are perceived by their population as having a meaningful identity. This affects their political legitimacy, economic development prospects and place qualities. However, the ongoing scalar expansion of our spatial attachments creates the potential for a metropolitan identity, which can contribute to a stronger metropolitan region vision. As a component of identity for…
City branding in polycentric urban regions: Identification, profiling and transformation in the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr
In polycentric urban regions several distinct cities, none of which is dominant, cooperate and compete with each other to attract inhabitants and firms. In such settings city branding strategies do not solely affect one city, but the entire region. We examined how city branding in the face of ecological modernization, that is, delivering higher added economic value, while lowering environmental impacts, is playing out in the Dutch Randstad and th…
Agglomerations and the rise of urban network externalities
Borrowed Size, Agglomeration Shadows and Cultural Amenities in North-West Europe
It has been argued that the concept of “borrowed size” is essential to understanding urban patterns and dynamics in North-West Europe. This paper conceptualizes this idea and provides an empirical exploration of it. A place borrows size when it hosts more urban functions than its own size could normally support. A borrowed size for one place means that other places face an “agglomeration shadow” because they host fewer urban functions than they w…
Borrowing size in networks of cities: City size, network connectivity and metropolitan functions in Europe
Twin cities in the process of metropolisation
Metropolisation is understood here as the process through which a loose collection of proximally located cities starts to become more functionally, culturally and institutionally integrated. It can be assumed that in theory metropolisation enhances performance, and indeed this conviction underlies many European metropolitan development strategies. Yet little is known about how this potential is realised in practice. This paper explores the proces…
City profile: The Hague
Spatial Structure and Productivity in US Metropolitan Areas
Recent concepts such as 'megaregions' and 'polycentric urban regions' emphasize that external economies are not confined to a single urban core, but are shared among a collection of nearby and linked cities. However, empirical analyses of agglomeration and agglomeration externalities have so far neglected the multicentric spatial organization of agglomeration and the possibility of the 'sharing' or 'borrowing' of size between cities. The authors …
Borrowing size in networks of cities: City size, network connectivity and metropolitan functions in Europe
Stretching the concept of ‘borrowed size’
‘Borrowed size’ is an emerging policy concept in several European countries, presenting theoretical potential to explain contemporary urban dynamics unaddressed through conventional urban growth theories that emphasise the role of agglomeration economies. In its original conceptualisation by Alonso, the concept describes and explains the situation that especially smaller cities that are located in a larger ‘megapolitan complex’ do perform better …
From Central Place to Network Model: Theory and Evidence of a Paradigm Change
While the deficiencies of the central place model have often been highlighted, no other paradigm has replaced it. However, recently some researchers have hinted at the development of a new model of spatial organisation, a network model. This model would hold most in polycentric urban regions. This paper discusses the features of this network model in comparison with the central place model. Moreover, it explores whether this model describes spati…
Agglomerations and the rise of urban network externalities
Summing Small Cities Does Not Make a Large City: Polycentric Urban Regions and the Provision of Cultural, Leisure and Sports Amenities
The paper explores whether a polycentric urban region can reap the advantages of its combined urban size to a similar extent as a similar-sized monocentric city-region. This question is elaborated for the provision of cultural, leisure and sports amenities. Their presence in 42 Dutch regions is expressed in an index, which serves as the dependent variable in a multiple regression model. An explaining variable is the extent of polycentricity of a …
Connecting the periphery: Distributive effects of new infrastructure
Multiple Perspectives on Functional Coherence: Heterogeneity and Multiplexity in the R andstad
Measuring functional coherence in metropolitan regions, in particular polycentric ones, requires taking the issues of multiplexity and individual level heterogeneity more explicitly into account, as the spatial organisation of functional linkages is not necessarily identical. Based on the analysis of one type of functional linkage a region can appear to be integrated, but loosely connected based on another. We demonstrate the occurrence of multip…
Realizing Potential: Building Regional Organizing Capacity in Polycentric Urban Regions
Regional planning for and in polycentric urban regions may entail certain competitive potentialities over a stand-alone development of their individual cities or city-regions. These potentialities relate to the pooling of resources, complementarities and spatial diversity. It seems that planners are increasingly aware of these potentialities as in several European countries attempts are made to identify such polycentric regional systems of former…
Clones or Complements? The Division of Labour between the Main Cities of the Randstad, the Flemish Diamond and the RheinRuhr Area
Meijers E. (2007) Clones or complements? The division of labour between the main cities of the Randstad, the Flemish Diamond and the RheinRuhr Area, Regional Studies 41, 889–900. In the contemporary debate on the spatial organization of urban regions, much emphasis is placed on the development of polycentric urban patterns on a variety of spatial scales. Polycentric development at the intra-urban scale of the polycentric city implies an unfolding…
Metropolisation: The winding road toward the citification of the region
We aim to consolidate the concept of metropolisation as a lens to examine urban region integration in territories characterized by extensive urbanization. Metropolisation is defined as the process through which institutionally, functionally, and spatially fragmented urbanized regions become integrated as coherent metropolitan systems. This novel framework is captured by three notions: inversion, multiplexity, and convergence. Inversion changes th…
Regional Spatial Structure and Retail Amenities in the Netherlands
Burger M. J., Meijers E. J. and van Oort F. G. Regional spatial structure and retail amenities in the Netherlands, Regional Studies. This paper examines how the presence of retail amenities in Dutch regions is dependent on their spatial structure. Retail amenities, in particular those specialized retail functions that require a large urban support base, are less found in more polycentric and more dispersed regions. This can be explained by the ob…
Does broadband internet allow cities to ‘borrow size’? Evidence from the Swedish labour market
Borrowed size refers to the idea that small cities near larger metropolitan centres can reap the advantages of large agglomerations, but without the costs of agglomeration. The study explores whether broadband internet helps such smaller cities to enjoy the labour market benefits of a larger city. Using Swedish micro-data from 2007 to 2015, together with unique data on broadband, suggestive evidence is found that broadband indeed allows smaller c…
Breaking with the spatial-cycle model: The shift towards ‘syncurbanization’ in polycentric urban regions
This paper criticizes traditional models of urban–regional expansion, which depart from monocentric ideals of urban core and ring. The original spatial-cycle model (SCM) suggests repeating stages of urbanization, suburbanization, disurbanization and re-urbanization. We reconceptualize the relations between core(s) and ring(s) to test the formation of urban regions under mono-, multi- and polycentric trajectories. The analysis employs local popula…
Struggles and strategies of rural regions in the age of the ‘urban triumph’
Border cities: Out of the shadow
The cities we need: Towards an urbanism guided by human needs satisfaction
This article proposes moving beyond the tyranny of economic imperatives towards a human needs-based framework to assess cities and envision their development. Existing calls for such a transition lack a foundation able to capture the various dimensions of human life in cities, which can be provided by the concept of human needs. We ask whether cities deliver satisfiers that make them good places to cater for the full range of human needs in a sim…
City profile: The Hague
Why bright city lights dazzle and illuminate: A cognitive science approach to urban promises
Despite the many uncertainties of life in cities, promises of economic prosperity, social mobility and happiness have fuelled the imagination of generations of urban migrants in search of a better life. Access to jobs, housing and amenities, and fewer restrictions of personal choices are some of the perceived advantages of cities, characterised here as ‘urban promises’. But while discourses celebrating the triumph of cities became increasingly co…
The multiplex relations between cities: A lexicon-based approach to detect urban systems
Cities relate to other cities in many ways, and much scholarly effort goes into uncovering those relationships. Building on the principle that strongly related cities will co-occur frequently in texts, we propose a novel method to classify those toponym co-occurrences using a lexicon-based text-mining method. Millions of webpages are analysed to retrieve how 293 Chinese cities are related in terms of six types: industry, information technology, f…
The metropolitan name game: The pathways to place naming shaping metropolitan regions
The centrality of metropolitan regions in policy and research does not mean they are perceived by their population as having a meaningful identity. This affects their political legitimacy, economic development prospects and place qualities. However, the ongoing scalar expansion of our spatial attachments creates the potential for a metropolitan identity, which can contribute to a stronger metropolitan region vision. As a component of identity for…
Unequal Political Representation of Core and Periphery: How Regions That Don’t Matter Vote for Parties That Don’t Bother
While many democracies face a ‘geography of discontent’, it is still largely unknown to what extent peripheral regions are underrepresented indeed. This paper analyses the spatial orientation of Dutch political parties and their Members of Parliament (MPs) obtained through counting the geographical toponyms mentioned in their parliamentary questions (2017–2021). Dutch Right‐wing, Liberal, and Conservative parties focus disproportionately more on …
Fixed link, fixed effects? Housing market outcomes of new infrastructure development in the Dutch Delta Area
This paper assesses the relationship between infrastructure development and housing market development, thereby focusing on major new infrastructure linking previously separate housing markets. This is often the case when bridges or tunnels provide for new connections in island regions or delta areas. Empirical evidence is presented for a case in the Netherlands: the construction of the Westerschelde Tunnel. This tunnel resulted in rather dramati…
Between suburb and city: Conceptualising interplaces
A conceptual blind spot in prevailing models of metropolitan regions is how to understand urbanisation in secondary localities that evolve to be neither an ideal-typical suburb nor a city. This article foregrounds Nick Phelps’ notion of ‘interplaces’ to provide this missing link in our understanding of metropolisation. Interplaces are defined as localities which are situated in between the conventional conceptual and geographical boundaries of th…
Imagined, emerging and real ‘Chinese dragons’: Analysing the functional coherence of Chinese megaregions
Overcoming fragmentation by strengthening the functional coherence of megaregions is deemed essential to reaping the benefits associated with megaregions.However, few studies have examined whether planned megaregions are functionally coherent.We assess the functional coherence of megaregions from three dimensions: inclusion, integration and consistency.Fifteen government-defined Chinese megaregions are evaluated and qualified.For nine of these ca…
Realizing Potential: Building Regional Organizing Capacity in Polycentric Urban Regions
Regional planning for and in polycentric urban regions may entail certain competitive potentialities over a stand-alone development of their individual cities or city-regions. These potentialities relate to the pooling of resources, complementarities and spatial diversity. It seems that planners are increasingly aware of these potentialities as in several European countries attempts are made to identify such polycentric regional systems of former…
Polycentric Urban Regions and the Quest for Synergy: Is a Network of Cities More than the Sum of the Parts
Polycentric urban regions, or urban networks, are often associated with the notion of synergy, the assumption being that the individual cities in these collections of distinct but proximally located cities relate to each other in a synergetic way, making the whole network of cities more than the sum of its parts. Drawing on economic network theories, an analysis of the presence of synergy is carried out for the Randstad region in the Netherlands,…
From Central Place to Network Model: Theory and Evidence of a Paradigm Change
While the deficiencies of the central place model have often been highlighted, no other paradigm has replaced it. However, recently some researchers have hinted at the development of a new model of spatial organisation, a network model. This model would hold most in polycentric urban regions. This paper discusses the features of this network model in comparison with the central place model. Moreover, it explores whether this model describes spati…
Clones or Complements? The Division of Labour between the Main Cities of the Randstad, the Flemish Diamond and the RheinRuhr Area
Meijers E. (2007) Clones or complements? The division of labour between the main cities of the Randstad, the Flemish Diamond and the RheinRuhr Area, Regional Studies 41, 889–900. In the contemporary debate on the spatial organization of urban regions, much emphasis is placed on the development of polycentric urban patterns on a variety of spatial scales. Polycentric development at the intra-urban scale of the polycentric city implies an unfolding…
Measuring Polycentricity and its Promises
Even a decade after the concept of polycentric development became popular and increasingly widespread in Europe as a normative policy stance allegedly leading to cohesion and competitiveness, its empirical basis is still rather weak. This is partly due to a lack of conceptual clearness, which makes its measurement difficult. This research briefing synthesises the results of two recent ESPON projects that aim to create a quantitative measurement o…
Summing Small Cities Does Not Make a Large City: Polycentric Urban Regions and the Provision of Cultural, Leisure and Sports Amenities
The paper explores whether a polycentric urban region can reap the advantages of its combined urban size to a similar extent as a similar-sized monocentric city-region. This question is elaborated for the provision of cultural, leisure and sports amenities. Their presence in 42 Dutch regions is expressed in an index, which serves as the dependent variable in a multiple regression model. An explaining variable is the extent of polycentricity of a …
Spatial Planning and Policy Integration: Concepts, Facilitators and Inhibitors
While the concept of policy integration is not a new idea within spatial planning discourse, it is becoming increasingly prevalent. Frequently, however, the term is used without any clear definition of what it means, or how it might be achieved. The aim of this paper is to provide more clarity about the concept and to identify the types of actions in the field of planning where integration with policy can be improved. In so doing, the paper assem…
Spatial Structure and Productivity in US Metropolitan Areas
Recent concepts such as 'megaregions' and 'polycentric urban regions' emphasize that external economies are not confined to a single urban core, but are shared among a collection of nearby and linked cities. However, empirical analyses of agglomeration and agglomeration externalities have so far neglected the multicentric spatial organization of agglomeration and the possibility of the 'sharing' or 'borrowing' of size between cities. The authors …
Form Follows Function? Linking Morphological and Functional Polycentricity
Empirical research establishing the costs and benefits that can be associated with polycentric urban systems is often called for but rather thin on the ground. In part, this is due to the persistence of what appear to be two analytically distinct approaches in understanding and measuring polycentricity: a morphological approach centring on nodal features and a functional approach focused on the relations between centres. Informed by the oft-overl…
Connecting the periphery: Distributive effects of new infrastructure
Regional Spatial Structure and Retail Amenities in the Netherlands
Burger M. J., Meijers E. J. and van Oort F. G. Regional spatial structure and retail amenities in the Netherlands, Regional Studies. This paper examines how the presence of retail amenities in Dutch regions is dependent on their spatial structure. Retail amenities, in particular those specialized retail functions that require a large urban support base, are less found in more polycentric and more dispersed regions. This can be explained by the ob…
Fixed link, fixed effects? Housing market outcomes of new infrastructure development in the Dutch Delta Area
This paper assesses the relationship between infrastructure development and housing market development, thereby focusing on major new infrastructure linking previously separate housing markets. This is often the case when bridges or tunnels provide for new connections in island regions or delta areas. Empirical evidence is presented for a case in the Netherlands: the construction of the Westerschelde Tunnel. This tunnel resulted in rather dramati…
Twin cities in the process of metropolisation
Metropolisation is understood here as the process through which a loose collection of proximally located cities starts to become more functionally, culturally and institutionally integrated. It can be assumed that in theory metropolisation enhances performance, and indeed this conviction underlies many European metropolitan development strategies. Yet little is known about how this potential is realised in practice. This paper explores the proces…
City profile: The Hague
Multiple Perspectives on Functional Coherence: Heterogeneity and Multiplexity in the R andstad
Measuring functional coherence in metropolitan regions, in particular polycentric ones, requires taking the issues of multiplexity and individual level heterogeneity more explicitly into account, as the spatial organisation of functional linkages is not necessarily identical. Based on the analysis of one type of functional linkage a region can appear to be integrated, but loosely connected based on another. We demonstrate the occurrence of multip…
Borrowed Size, Agglomeration Shadows and Cultural Amenities in North-West Europe
It has been argued that the concept of “borrowed size” is essential to understanding urban patterns and dynamics in North-West Europe. This paper conceptualizes this idea and provides an empirical exploration of it. A place borrows size when it hosts more urban functions than its own size could normally support. A borrowed size for one place means that other places face an “agglomeration shadow” because they host fewer urban functions than they w…
Borrowing size in networks of cities: City size, network connectivity and metropolitan functions in Europe
City branding in polycentric urban regions: Identification, profiling and transformation in the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr
In polycentric urban regions several distinct cities, none of which is dominant, cooperate and compete with each other to attract inhabitants and firms. In such settings city branding strategies do not solely affect one city, but the entire region. We examined how city branding in the face of ecological modernization, that is, delivering higher added economic value, while lowering environmental impacts, is playing out in the Dutch Randstad and th…
Agglomerations and the rise of urban network externalities
Stretching the concept of ‘borrowed size’
‘Borrowed size’ is an emerging policy concept in several European countries, presenting theoretical potential to explain contemporary urban dynamics unaddressed through conventional urban growth theories that emphasise the role of agglomeration economies. In its original conceptualisation by Alonso, the concept describes and explains the situation that especially smaller cities that are located in a larger ‘megapolitan complex’ do perform better …
The metropolitan name game: The pathways to place naming shaping metropolitan regions
The centrality of metropolitan regions in policy and research does not mean they are perceived by their population as having a meaningful identity. This affects their political legitimacy, economic development prospects and place qualities. However, the ongoing scalar expansion of our spatial attachments creates the potential for a metropolitan identity, which can contribute to a stronger metropolitan region vision. As a component of identity for…
Struggles and strategies of rural regions in the age of the ‘urban triumph’
Why bright city lights dazzle and illuminate: A cognitive science approach to urban promises
Despite the many uncertainties of life in cities, promises of economic prosperity, social mobility and happiness have fuelled the imagination of generations of urban migrants in search of a better life. Access to jobs, housing and amenities, and fewer restrictions of personal choices are some of the perceived advantages of cities, characterised here as ‘urban promises’. But while discourses celebrating the triumph of cities became increasingly co…
Information Technology and Local Product Variety: Substitution, Complementarity and Spillovers
This paper addresses the interaction between information technology (IT) and agglomeration. The literature distinguishes two types of interactions, namely a substitution effect and a complementarity effect. We conceptualise a third effect, namely a ‘spillover’ mechanism, by which IT allows places in close proximity of large cities to ‘borrow size’ and sustain greater product variety. We test these mechanisms using detailed data on restaurant cuis…
Metropolisation: The winding road toward the citification of the region
We aim to consolidate the concept of metropolisation as a lens to examine urban region integration in territories characterized by extensive urbanization. Metropolisation is defined as the process through which institutionally, functionally, and spatially fragmented urbanized regions become integrated as coherent metropolitan systems. This novel framework is captured by three notions: inversion, multiplexity, and convergence. Inversion changes th…
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