POLYCENTRICITY ISSUES OF ROMANIA?S SOUTH-EAST REGION
Autor (i): Sorin Daniel, Manole
JEL: O11, O20, R12.
Cuvinte cheie: morphological polycentricity, polycentricity potential, South-East Region, functional urban areas.
Abstract:
Polycentricity at regional level, a concept introduced in the 1990’s, aims at identifying and describing regional spatial structures and requires a more equitable spatial distribution of economic opportunities, public services, urban amenities etc. Being a complex notion, it has a lot of facets, which is why the assessment of polycentricity dimensions is not an easy task at all. In order to perform polycentricity analysis, first it is necessary to identify functional urban areas, which the building blocks of a polycentric region are. In this paper, after a brief review of the polycentricity concept, a methodology for estimating several dimensions of polycentricity at regional level is presented. More specifically, it is about some indicators of morphological polycentricity and of the polycentricity potential. For the polycentricity potential, a method is also proposed to aggregate indicators into one indicator. Finally, the proposed methodology is applied to Romania’s South-East Region.
Polycentricity at regional level, a concept introduced in the 1990’s, aims at identifying and describing regional spatial structures and requires a more equitable spatial distribution of economic opportunities, public services, urban amenities etc. Being a complex notion, it has a lot of facets, which is why the assessment of polycentricity dimensions is not an easy task at all. In order to perform polycentricity analysis, first it is necessary to identify functional urban areas, which the building blocks of a polycentric region are. In this paper, after a brief review of the polycentricity concept, a methodology for estimating several dimensions of polycentricity at regional level is presented. More specifically, it is about some indicators of morphological polycentricity and of the polycentricity potential. For the polycentricity potential, a method is also proposed to aggregate indicators into one indicator. Finally, the proposed methodology is applied to Romania’s South-East Region.
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