ABSTRACT

This paper criticizes traditional models of urban–regional expansion, which depart from monocentric ideals of urban core and ring. The original spatial-cycle model (SCM) suggests repeating stages of urbanization, suburbanization, disurbanization and re-urbanization. We reconceptualize the relations between core(s) and ring(s) to test the formation of urban regions under mono-, multi- and polycentric trajectories. The analysis employs local population data in functional urban regions in Finland, Austria and the Netherlands, three countries with different urbanization patterns, for the period 1961–2011. Results suggest a ‘break of the cycle’ in polycentric regions and a shift towards a different period, which we call ‘syncurbanization’.

摘要

本文批评了传统的城市-区域扩张模式，这些模式背离了城市核心和城市环的单中心理想。原始空间周期模型 (SCM) 表明城市化、郊区化、逆城市化和再城市化的重复阶段。我们重新概念化核心和环之间的关系，以测试在单中心、多中心和多中心轨迹下城市区域的形成。该分析采用了芬兰、奥地利和荷兰这三个城市化模式不同的国家 1961 年至 2011 年期间功能性城市区域的当地人口数据。结果表明，多中心地区出现“循环中断”，并转向不同时期，我们称之为“同步城市化”。