Le “Pot Belge” : hommage amical à un pays modèle pour l’étude des facteurs d’intégration territoriale

Belgium has been for the author a continuous matter of theoretical and quantitative research on political geography since a quarter of century. Due to the very particular geometry of Belgium’s territory (length of internal linguistic border, specific position of the Brussels-Capital Region), the country offers exceptional opportunities of exploration of the relations between economic factors (spatial interaction) and political factors (territorial interaction). An analysis of the dynamic of the settlement system on the long term (1846-2009) and of the migration on a half-century (1955-2009) re... Mehr ...