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2005
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Urban Public Economics Review
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Lise Bourdeau-Lepage et al., « On poles and centers: Cities in the French Style », Urban Public Economics Review, ID : 10670/1.bthkcz
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"The multicentric city is an oversimplified view of the contemporarycity. The term center covers a multi-faceted reality. A centeris not only a concentration of activities. It also means domination,power, creation and interaction. Consequently, the secondarycenters do not necessarily replicate the main center and they areclearly differentiated. We define the pole as a concentration ofactivities, whatever their nature, and the center as a concentrationof high-order and strategic activities, so that the so-calledmulticentric cities may be both multipolar and monocentric. Thissuggests what we call the Multipolar-Monocentric hypothesis.The paper sets out theoretical foundations of the pole-center distinction,and shows that the Multipolar-Monocentric hypothesisis supported by the spatial pattern and the specialization ofemployment clusters in a sample of large French cities."