Functional Urban Regions and Central Place Regions in the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland

Sherrill, K. (1977). Functional Urban Regions and Central Place Regions in the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland. IIASA Research Memorandum. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: RM-77-017

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Abstract

The first part of this paper contains a discussion of the criteria and procedures used to delimit functional urban regions in the Federal Republic of Germany. Each region consists of an urban core, containing at least 20,000 jobs and 50,000 population, and all hinterland counties that are linked to the core through journey-to-work flows from hinterland to core. The second part of the paper discusses central-place regions in Switzerland and concludes that these regions are conceptually similar to functional urban regions.

These German and Swiss regions are to serve as the spatial frameworks of policy-relevant and analytical studies of regional growth and change in both countries during the 1960-70 period.

Item Type: Monograph (IIASA Research Memorandum)
Research Programs: Human Settlements and Services Area (HSS)
Depositing User: IIASA Import
Date Deposited: 15 Jan 2016 01:44
Last Modified: 27 Aug 2021 17:08
URI: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/798

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