Monocentric or polycentric city? An empirical perspective

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07624v1
• Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:06:38 GMT
• Title: Monocentric or polycentric city? An empirical perspective
• Authors: R\'emi Lemoy
• Abstract summary: The present work performs a synthesis of both viewpoints on cities, regarding their use in the literature. It explores with data on European urban areas how some cities considered to be the most polycentric in Europe compare to more standard cities.
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• Abstract: Do cities have just one or several centers? Studies performing radial or monocentric analyses of cities are usually criticised by researchers stating that cities are actually polycentric, and this has been well known for a long time. Reversely, when cities are studied independently of any center, other researchers will wonder how the variables of interest evolve with the distance to the center, because this distance is known to be a major determinant at the intra-urban scale. Both monocentric and polycentric formalisms have been introduced centuries (respectively, decades) ago for the study of urban areas, and used both on the empirical and the theoretical side in different disciplines (economics, geography, complex systems, physics...). The present work performs a synthesis of both viewpoints on cities, regarding their use in the literature, and explores with data on European urban areas how some cities considered to be the most polycentric in Europe compare to more standard cities when studied through a combination of radial analysis and scaling laws.

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