Economic synergy is essential in functional polycentric metropolitan regions due to their high collaborative potential between area centers and subcenters, which results in greater competition. Our results indicate that, based on the theory of economic geography, economic activities in...

In the last decades, there have been many articles on the spatial structure of metropolitan areas, but a study for explaining driving factors of changes in the spatial structure of metropolitan areas has remained unknown so far. To fill this gap, the article explains the driving factors of these...

This paper aims analysis spatial interaction of Romanian Cities from 1948 until 2021 trying to perceive if along seven decades of quite different political regimes – from Central Planning to Market Interaction– there have been changes in the features of spatial interaction. The analysis...