McCafferty, Des and Van Egeraat, Chris and Gleeson, Justin and Bartley, Brendan (2010) Complementarities between Urban Centres on the Island of Ireland (NIRSA) Working Paper Series 56. Working Paper. NIRSA - National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis, Maynooth.

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Abstract

Complementarity between urban centres is a key element of Ireland‟s National Spatial Strategy and Northern Ireland‟s Regional Development Strategy. Both documents encourage the development of complementary roles for urban centres, at both the intraregional and inter-regional or national scale. In addition, at the intra-regional scale, different roles and functions are accorded to different types of urban components. Although the documents do not define complementarity, in most cases the term appears to signify functional distinctiveness/specialisation of urban centres. Such complementarity can be defined at different level of functional aggregation. Both documents are vague as to the level of aggregation and provide few clear suggestions as to the different roles or functions that are accorded to the various urban components.

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Keywords:	Urban centres; census; gateways; hubs;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > National Institute for Regional and Spatial analysis, NIRSA
Item ID:	2295
Depositing User:	NIRSA Editor
Date Deposited:	09 Dec 2010 09:16
Publisher:	NIRSA - National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis
URI:	http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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