Switzerland as a Single Metropolitan Area? A Study of its Commuting Network

Pierre Dessemontet, Vincent Kaufmann and Christophe Jemelin
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Pierre Dessemontet: Communauté d'Etudes pour l'Aménagement du Territoire (CEAT), in the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 16, Bâtiment Polyvalent, Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland, Pierre.dessemontet@epfl.ch, Pierre.dessemontet@gmail.com
Vincent Kaufmann: Laboratoire de Sociologie Urbaine (LaSUR), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 16, Bâtiment Polyvalent, Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland, Vincent.kaufmann@epfl.ch
Christophe Jemelin: Offer and Network Development at the Transports publics de la région lausannoise SA, Chemin du Closel 15, Case postale, 1020 Renens 1, Switzerland, jemelin.c@t-1.ch

Urban Studies, 2010, vol. 47, issue 13, 2785-2802

Abstract: Out of the many ingredients that together build urban areas, three deserve particular consideration as their relationship is evolving: the functional centrality, the morphology of built-up areas and the way of life. Those three characteristics do not necessarily match along territorial lines anymore. To overcome this limitation, this article suggests approaching urbanity in terms of cohesion. To illustrate this approach under a specific analytical point of view, the paper describes a cohesion index based on the commuter relationships between the Swiss communes from 1970 to 2000. For 2000, further distinction is made between car-based and public transport-based commuting patterns, which allowed discrimination between two scales of cohesiveness between the Swiss agglomerations.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098010377371

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