Research opportunities in territorial development and city region

ZEF public lecture with Andrea Cattaneo, Senior Scientist with FAO, Rome.
This talk focuses on how to move beyond the rural-urban dichotomy when thinking about development. Our research, recently published in PNAS and World Development, lays out a framework and the data infrastructure for a more nuanced spatial representation of socio-economic constraints and opportunities. We build on central place theory to capture the urban hierarchy in access to services and employment opportunities provided by urban centers of different sizes. The idea of urban–rural catchment areas (URCAs) is introduced, based on travel time, to express the interconnection between urban centers and their surrounding rural areas.
Find more information here: https://bit.ly/ZEF_PL_0812
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