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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Un modèle radiocentrique pour l'analyse des espaces ruraux périurbains

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Research on periurbanisation’s factors, a phenomenon that has greatly contributed to the demographic growth of French rural areas for the last twenty-five years, leads us to ask about the determinants of residential location in rural areas of people working in a town. In order to answer this question, it is necessary to transpose residential location models usually used at the scale of the town - models which are the basis of the New Urban Economics school - to periurban areas. The area we are interested in is differentiated both from urban and rural areas seen from the agricultural production point of view. But we show that it can be analyzed in the same manner as urban areas. However, this transposition requires the adoption of specific hypotheses, which are synthesized in a simultaneous equations model. Beyond the results concerning the periurbanization’s determinants that can be derived from the estimations of this model, this work allows us to think about the relevance of the concentric model used, in general, and more precisely concerning rural areas.