The spatial implications of the functional proximity deriving from air passenger flows between European metropolitan urban regions
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Abstract
Until recently the traditional spatial configuration
of the European geography was based upon
the core-periphery model. The ‘pentagon’, broadly
defined as lying between London, Paris, Milan,
Munich and Hamburg, was seen as the core area
characterised by having the highest concentration of
economic development in the European Union (EU),
with the remainder of the European territory viewed as
peripheral, albeit to varying degrees. In a number of
cases such peripheral areas equated with clear regional
disparities. The elaboration of the European Spatial
Development Perspective (ESDP) (CEC, European
spatial development perspective, towards balanced and
sustainable development in the territory of the European
Union, 1999) challenged this core-periphery
model. European spatial planning policies, aimed at
encouraging social and economic, and with ever
increasing importance, territorial cohesion, seek
amongst other aspects to encourage the development
of a balanced and polycentric urban system. This paper
adopts a network analysis approach to the analysis of
air passenger flows between some 28 principal European
metropolitan urban regions. The evaluation of
these flows contributes to an enhanced comprehension
of the spatial dynamics of the European metropolitan
territory which goes beyond that deriving from the
more standard analyses of the individual components
of the urban system. Several indicators are used,
deriving from gravitational modelling techniques, to
analyse the complexity of the air passenger flows. A
multidimensional scaling (MDS) technique is introduced
in order to interpret and visualise the resulting
spatial configuration and positioning of the different
metropolitan centres within the conceptual European
‘space of air passenger flows’, thereby contrasting with
the more traditional map-based geographical image of
Europe, based upon Cartesian coordinates.
CitacióBurns, Malcom; Roca Cladera, Josep; Moix berguedà, Montserrat. The spatial implications of the functional proximity deriving from air passenger flows between European metropolitan urban regions. A: GeoJournal (2008) 71:37–52. Pàg. 37-52.
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