[eng] The big cities, and especially the biggest of them -the urban area of Paris- attract more and more people, economic activities and wealth. The inhabitants frequently settle a few miles away from the center of the city. Thus, they hope to benefit from an urban way of life in the...

Sustainable Development Goals are intrinsically competing, and their embedding into urban systems furthermore emphasises such compromises. When observed at the scale of systems of cities, such concern is considered as a series of innovations that challenges the adaptive capacity of urban...

Sustainable Development Goals are intrinsically competing, and their embedding into urban systems furthermore emphasises such compromises. When observed at the scale of systems of cities, such concern is considered as a series of innovations that challenges the adaptive capacity of urban...

An important literature has focused on then rank size rule and the Zipf’s law without delivering significant results. Among the reasons for this low scientific productivity, one can find ommisions and misunderstandings between different scientific fields, the generalization of physical and...

The distribution of urban growth in a system of cities is often adjusted by a stochastic model. We apply this model to the French urban system, for the period of intense urbanisation in the second half of XXth century. We consider as urban units the newly defined ?aires urbaines? which are...

BACCArNi (Brigitte), Pumain (Denise). - Migrations in the French Urban System, 1982-1990 Analysis of inter-urban migration flows has identified remarkable stabilities in both geographical pattern and social composition. More than 2 million migrants moved between the 1 10 main French towns and...

Les villes ont un rôle spécifique dans l'économie, par les diverses formes d'accumulation qui s'y expriment en rapport avec la centralité, et surtout par les relations qu'elles établissent entre des lieux éloignés, dans une dynamique de complémentarité des ressources et de concurrence...