Belgian urban regions

Abstract

Belgium, pour le calcul des agglomérations basées sur une distance de 100 m, utilisée dans cette étude pour la définition des agglomérations des régions urbaines.

From Asylum to Post‐Arrival Geographies: Syrian and Iraqi Refugees in Belgium

“…Row by row, one can read the percentage of refugees registered in different types of municipalities. Drawing on the classification proposed by Vanderstraeten and van Hecke (2019), we distinguish between the urban core, the agglomeration, the suburbs, the commuter zone and the countryside. In this classification, Belgium counts five major cities (Brussels, Antwerp, Liège, Ghent and Charleroi) and 14 regional towns (Ostend, Bruges, Roeselare, Kortrijk, Mechelen, Leuven, Turnhout, Sint‐Niklaas, Genk, Hasselt, Tournai, Mons, Namur, Verviers).…”

“…The map excludes centres for unaccompanied minors and smaller reception places outside asylum centres. The background of the map visualises the classification of Belgian municipalities according to Vanderstraeten and van Hecke (2019). The urban core and the agglomeration are represented in the same colour, but the core is demarcated.…”

Retail trade in Brussels: reconciling the city with a changing sector

“…The landscapes of urban retail trade: forms and places 10 With nearly 28 000 points of sale or provision of services of a commercial nature and 2,4 billion m 2 of net sales area for goods, the Brussels urban area has the largest concentration of commercial offer in Belgium by far. 2019), delimitation of the Urban Region according to Vanderstraeten and Van Hecke [2019] 11 In urban areas, over the centuries, sedentary trade has been organised spontaneously in more or less large clusters, often referred to as hubs. If the city is of sufficient size, these clusters are hierarchical.…”

“…Table 3. Changes in the number, occupancy and characteristics of commercial units in the Brussels urban region between 2009 and 2019 Source: Université libre de Bruxelles, applied geography and geomarketing department, based on Locatus land inventories (2009 and 2019) and Vanderstraeten and Van Hecke [2019] 43 The net sales area balance, which was positive between 2009 and 2019, shows very different trends depending on the type of point of sale and the way in which it is operated. Organised retail, which includes branches and franchises, is growing sharply, while independent retail in the strict sense is in sharp decline.…”

atlas.brussels, un outil de géovisualisation de l’extension et de la fragmentation métropolitaine bruxelloise

“…Bruxelles constitue de longue date un objet d'étude singulier dans la littérature sur les villes européennes, du fait de ses particularités politiques et administratives, sociales, linguistiques ou encore économiques. Des travaux ont abordé l'extension spatiale de son agglomération et de son aire métropolitaine, cette dernière s'étendant sur chacune des trois Régions belges (Van Hecke, 1999 ;Thomas et al, 2012 ;Jones et al, 2015 ;Dujardin et al, 2007 ;Vanderstraeten et Van Hecke, 2019 ;Strale, 2019) ; aucun consensus quant à son extension exacte ne se dégage. À l'image de la Belgique tout entière (Van Wynsberghe, 2011 ;Godin et Hindriks, 2015), l'aire métropolitaine de Bruxelles présente une certaine fragmentation, et ce dans diverses dimensions (Van Wynsberghe et al, 2009).…”