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Agglomeration process and definition of the city
[Définir la ville]

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  • Catherine Baumont

    (LATEC - Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Techniques Economiques [UMR 5601] - UB - Université de Bourgogne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Hubert Beguin

    (UCL GEO - Département de Géographie - UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain)

  • Jean-Marie Huriot

    (LATEC - Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Techniques Economiques [UMR 5601] - UB - Université de Bourgogne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

The city can hardly be grasped by a simple definition. Most of the available definitions are statistical or descriptive and they fail to represent the complex, multidimensional and changing nature of the urban phenomenon. The definition proposed in this paper is related to economic theory of city formation and is based on the agglomeration process and the diversity of agents and activities.

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  • Catherine Baumont & Hubert Beguin & Jean-Marie Huriot, 1996. "Agglomeration process and definition of the city [Définir la ville]," Working Papers hal-01527276, HAL.
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