In order to give a contribution to the problem of defining urban-rural interrelations, the authors use census data concerning daily flows of commuting workers. Hsu's cell mapping method, transferred from physical dynamics to areal analysis, allows us to obtain a consistent hierarchy of clusters of municipalities. Some archetypes of areal interrelations emerging from this analysis are described, and it follows an overview of the results obtained working on the whole of Italy. In the case of Milan metropolitan area a comparison with other methods shows that Cell-mapping is sharper in analysing urban-rural competition and therefore it can be used to help the decision maker
A new Method for Analysing Urban-rural Relations through Commutation Data
CHANG, Ting Fa Margherita;PICCININI, Livio Clemente
2000-01-01
Abstract
In order to give a contribution to the problem of defining urban-rural interrelations, the authors use census data concerning daily flows of commuting workers. Hsu's cell mapping method, transferred from physical dynamics to areal analysis, allows us to obtain a consistent hierarchy of clusters of municipalities. Some archetypes of areal interrelations emerging from this analysis are described, and it follows an overview of the results obtained working on the whole of Italy. In the case of Milan metropolitan area a comparison with other methods shows that Cell-mapping is sharper in analysing urban-rural competition and therefore it can be used to help the decision makerI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
