Employment descentralisation: polycentric compaction or sprawl? The case of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region 1986-1996

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López and Ivan Muñiz Olivera ()
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Ivan Muñiz Olivera: Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Working Papers from Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona

Abstract: The Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR) has been repeatedly characterised as a polycentric-type urban system. The aim of this study is to corroborate this affirmation by making use of a methodology that enables the identifying of employment subcentres and valuing of the degree of polycentrism of the BMR in 1986 and 1996. The results obtained in the two years confirm the existence and extension of the polycentrism.

Keywords: Employment subcentres; identification; descentralisation; sprawl; compaction; polycentrism. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R12 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2005-06
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