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La dynamique d'un système de villes
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Pumain, Denise Saint-Julien, T. |
| Copyright Year | 1989 |
| Abstract | This paper summarizes the results of several comparative studies of the long-term and recent evolution of French towns, which are used to provide a more general theoretical framework of the evolution of urban networks. A fundamental property of the old urban systems is the persistency of the geographical mesh, of the hierarchy of city sizes and of the main socio-economic inter-urban differences. Tremendous changes have occured in the cities, in their economy, society and built environment, and their spatial dimension has considerably expanded, during the thirty-year period of rapid demographic and economic growth which followed the second world-war. However, the processes of change were very similar from one town to another, the main innovations of the period were very rapidly diffused, so that the relative positions of the cities were only very slowly modified. Those peculiar modes of evolution make fruitful the analogy between urban sytems and other hierarchical open systems where self-organization phenomena occur. |
| Starting Page | 325 |
| Ending Page | 337 |
| Page Count | 13 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01520588/document |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
