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No. 7 (2016)
Polycentricity, Performance and Planning

Jaume Masip-Tresserra

348 pages

ISBN 978-9461866318

Published: 2025-03-08

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  • Polycentricity, Performance and Planning Concepts, Evidence and Policy in Barcelona, Catalonia

    Jaume Masip-Tresserra
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    Problem statement

    More than half of the world’s population currently lives in urban settlements, a proportion that is expected to increase to more than 65 percent by 2050 (UN, 2014). The larger agglomerations are a complex spatial configuration of places and flows that are polycentric by nature, or at least they demonstrate a certain development of a multi-center structure. Recently, the focus on agglomerations’ polycentric structure has attracted a great deal of...