Author, as appears in the article.: Paolo Russo, Antonio Serrano Gine, David Perez Albert, Maria Yolanda Brandajs, Fiammetta

Department: Geografia

URV's Author/s: Perez Albert, Maria Yolanda / Russo, Antonio / SERRANO GINÉ, DAVID

Keywords: Urbanisation morphology Urban areas Sistemas urbanos Geomatic methods Espon Cartografía urbana

Abstract: This paper provides a first attempt at the construction of a unified, homogeneous inventory of different classes of urban settlements in the European space, building on the approach of international institutions such as OECD and the EU in relation to larger urban areas and extending it to the specific challenge presented by smaller settlements. Its objective is twofold. The first is to address the fundamental empirical problem that was central to the development of the ESPON 2013 project 'Small and Medium sized Towns in their Functional Territorial Context' (TOWN), that is the proper geographic identification of different classes of urban settlements. The second is to introduce one basic classification of urban settlements, and two more refined typologies of small and medium sized towns (SMST). These typologies are used to provide a first impression of territorial structures of urbanisation throughout Europe, further elaborated in functional terms in the TOWN project.

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: myolanda.perez@urv.cat antonio.russo@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0003-1634-4986 0000-0001-8768-246X

Record's date: 2023-02-18

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

Link to the original source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/tesg.12251

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

Papper original source: Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie. 108 (4): 380-402

APA: Paolo Russo, Antonio Serrano Gine, David Perez Albert, Maria Yolanda Brandajs, Fiammetta (2017). Identifying and Classifying Small and Medium Sized Towns in Europe. Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie, 108(4), 380-402. DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12251

Article's DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12251

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2017

Publication Type: Journal Publications