Economic functions and spatial planning
| dc.contributor.author | Ploeger, Ralph | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-12T16:40:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-12T16:40:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | en |
| dc.description | Book of abstracts : AESOP PhD workshop 1999, Finse, Depertment of Geography Univeristy of Bergen, Norway | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Introduction In 1990, the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy wrote that in the last decades the big cities transformed from pioneer into slow developer concerning economic growth (WRR, 1998). This trend developed in spite of national spatial policy, which promoted concepts stressing concentration of activity in and around big cities and mainports. Real trends point in another direction. Since 1960, all metropolitan areas in The Netherlands have undergone a significant spatial economic transition. The city is not the place where activities concentrate anymore. Since the sixties economic growth has increasingly been concentrated at the edge of the city, or even the periphery. Urban researchers stress that it is better to refer to what we used to call the city as part of an urban field, that has a spatial structure that is less obvious. Theoretical background When looking at the spatial dynamics of economic activity through the eyes of a spatial planner, it is important to understand that functions are essentially free to move and that a city is not (Salet, 1998). Even though economic geographers today realise that firm behaviour is not just regulated by economic forces, and that spatial, political and temporal forces also play a role in decision making, planners have to realise that the city as such is not the natural focal point of the economy, and that economic activity does not have a natural tendency to locate in this centre. It is the other way around. For a number of reasons, maybe not relevant anymore today, economic functions located in the city. As a result, it became the focal point of essentially unattached economic activity, and resulting natural interrelations generated a surplus value. Today, when firms have to choose a location, the mixed activity pool in the central city area is a location condition to consider. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 191-194 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2783 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | CC-BY | en |
| dc.source | Book of abstracts : AESOP PhD workshop 1999, Finse, Depertment of Geography Univeristy of Bergen, Norway | en |
| dc.title | Economic functions and spatial planning | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |