Functional Urban Regions and Larger Urban Zones in Europe and Greece: The Deficient and Fuzzy Definition of an Essential Spatial Unit

Functional Urban Regions and Larger Urban Zones in Europe and Greece: The Deficient and Fuzzy Definition of an Essential Spatial Unit

Spyros Anagnostou
ISBN13: 9781522592761|ISBN10: 1522592768|EISBN13: 9781522592778
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9276-1.ch030
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Anagnostou, Spyros. "Functional Urban Regions and Larger Urban Zones in Europe and Greece: The Deficient and Fuzzy Definition of an Essential Spatial Unit." Megacities and Rapid Urbanization: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 601-608. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9276-1.ch030

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Anagnostou, S. (2020). Functional Urban Regions and Larger Urban Zones in Europe and Greece: The Deficient and Fuzzy Definition of an Essential Spatial Unit. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Megacities and Rapid Urbanization: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (pp. 601-608). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9276-1.ch030

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Anagnostou, Spyros. "Functional Urban Regions and Larger Urban Zones in Europe and Greece: The Deficient and Fuzzy Definition of an Essential Spatial Unit." In Megacities and Rapid Urbanization: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 601-608. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9276-1.ch030

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Abstract

In the European Union, Functional Urban Regions are important to economic and spatial planning; so is the existence of statistical data at this spatial level, both for the European and the national policies. Still, most European countries, like Greece, have no official delimitations for these zones - and, consecutively, no socio-economic data produced at this level. “Larger Urban Zones”, created by Eurostat's Urban Audit represent the only proxy to FURs that could be used for comparable studies, but this would demand an effort for a better harmonization and for consequent statistical series.

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