| Résumé: |
This master’s thesis examines local interactions between international functions inside European cities, with the following questions: what are the functions being located near to each other? How are they disposed in European cities? Can we observe recurring organization types? If so, how effectively cities spatially support these functions inside urban areas? Thus, the work consist in defining, comparing and classifying local areas of influence (intra-urban) of metropolitan functions for 125 major European cities on the basis of indicators built by the German institute of spatial planning (BBSR), and distributed into 5 themes: Politics, economy, science, transport and culture. In other words, the objective of this work is to determine how the areas of influence of metropolitan function (estimated through interaction potentials) are spatially organized within the metropolitan areas, but also to establish whether these local arrangements are characteristic of a certain degree of influence and performance of cities that host them. The results point out a general link, for European cities, between the degree of overlapping of functions and the diversity of cities but not with the size of cities. This participates in the idea that lots of midsize cities of central Europe are supporting various and numerous functions inside metropolitan areas, case which we’ll discuss the development in the European urban system subsequently. |