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term:

Functional Urban Area (FUA)

theme: Spatial Structures

definition:

"For countries with more than 10 million inhabitants, a FUA is defined as having an urban core of at least 15,000 inhabitants and over 50,000 in total population. For smaller countries, a FUA should have an urban core of at least 15,000 inhabitants and more than 0.5% of the national population, as well as having functions of national or regional importance. 1595 FUAs with more than 20,000 inhabitants have been identified in Europe."

source:

ESPON Project 1.1.1 "Potentials for polycentric development in Europe", Final Report, p. 24

download document:

ESPON report 1.1.1 complete.pdf (33,9MB)

external link source:

http://www.espon.eu



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