Author, as appears in the article.: Servillo, Loris Paolo Russo, Antonio

Department: Geografia

URV's Author/s: Russo, Antonio

Keywords: Town Territorial dynamic Spatial pattern Inventario territorial Geografía urbana Europe Espon Ciudades medias

Abstract: The paper contributes to the understanding of socio-spatial trends and urban systems in Europe, with a specific focus on smaller settlements. Firstly, a morphological delimitation of urban settlements as geographical base is used to identify the different settlement structures that characterise regions across Europe. Secondly, an analysis of population and GDP performances of NUTS3 regions for the 29 countries of the European space (growth rates in 2001-2011) provides evidence of the variety of territorial phenomena that characterise smaller-settlement regions across Europe. Finally, the paper highlights the diversity and complexity of urbanisation structures in Europe and how general trends observed at larger scale are articulated locally according to prevailing structures of urbanisation. It shows the character of 'embeddedness' of smaller settlements within urban systems and territorial structures and how the socio-economic performances of smaller-settlement regions are defined by a combination of macro trends, national contextualisation, local dynamics and regional path dependency.

Research group: GRATET. Anàlisi Territorial i Estudis Turístics

Thematic Areas: Geography, planning and development Geography Geografia i urbanisme Geografía Engenharias iii Economics and econometrics Economics Economia Ciencias sociales

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 0040747X

Author's mail: antonio.russo@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0001-8768-246X

Record's date: 2023-02-18

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion

Link to the original source: https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12250

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie. 108 (4): 403-423

APA: Servillo, Loris Paolo Russo, Antonio (2017). Spatial trends of towns in Europe: the performance of regions with low degree of urbanisation. Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie, 108(4), 403-423. DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12250

Article's DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12250

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2017

Publication Type: Journal Publications