The EU-OECD definition of a functional urban area

By L. Dijkstra, Hugo Poelman, Paolo Veneri. OECD Regional Development Working Papers, 2019

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This paper describes the EU-OECD method to define functional urban areas (FUAs). Being composed of a city and its commuting zone, FUAs encompass the economic and functional extent of cities based on daily people’s movements. The paper first presents briefly the methodological approach and subsequently provides a detailed description of the identification algorithm, together with the data needed to apply it. This definition has been applied to 33 OECD member countries and Colombia, as well as to all European Union member countries.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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• Global anthropogenic emissions in urban areas: patterns, trends, and challenges (2021, background): “Figure S4 shows the sectorial composition of the emissions from FAUs (FUAs, [43]) in 1970 and 2015 for different pollutants and world regions.”
• Place-Based Policies and Spatial Disparities across European Cities (2020, unknown): “For these economic and analytical reasons, we focus on spatial disparities across metropolitan regions (“metros”) using the recent EC/OECD specification (OECD 2019).”