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Metropolitan Areas of the European Union: Larger Urban Zones, Blue Banana, Budapest Metropolitan Area, Thessaloniki Metropolitan Area
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-23.
ISBN 9781156725054
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Larger Urban Zones, Blue Banana, Budapest Metropolitan Area, Thessaloniki Metropolitan Area, Largest Population Centres in the European Union, List of Metropolitan Areas in the European Union by Gdp, Ostrava Metropolitan Area, Peri Urban Regions Platform Europe. Excerpt: The Blue Banana (also known as the Hot Banana, European Megalopolis or European Backbone ) is a discontinuous corridor of urbanisation in Western Europe , with a population of around 90 million. It stretches approximately from North West England in the north to Milan in the south. The curvature of this corridor (hence the "banana" in the name) takes in cities such as London , Brussels , Amsterdam , Cologne , Frankfurt am Main , Luxembourg , Stuttgart , Strasbourg , Zurich and Milan , and covers one of the world's highest concentrations of people, money and industry. The concept was developed in 1989 by RECLUS, a group of French geographers managed by Roger Brunet . List of cities and regions The cities in the table below include their greater urban areas .History The French geographer Roger Brunet, who wished to subdivide Europe into "active" and "passive" spaces, developed the concept of a West European "backbone" in 1989. He made reference to an urban corridor of industry and services stretching from northern England to northern Italy . Brunet did not see it as a new discovery, but as something easily predictable to anyone with "a little bit of intelligence and a feel for spatial properties."He saw the Blue Banana as the development of historical precedents, e.g. known trade routes, or as the consequence of the accumulation of industrial capital. France, in his view, lost its links to the corridor as a result of its persecution of minorities (viz. the Huguenots ) and excessive centralisation in Paris. In his
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