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Les villes : toujours plus tertiaires

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[fre] La population française est très inégalement répartie sur son territoire : elle est concentrée massivement dans quelques villes. L'emploi est encore plus concentré . Chaque secteur d'activité à sa propre logique spatiale. L'agriculture a besoin d'espace, ses emplois sont dispersés sur tout le territoire et sont donc beaucoup moins concentrés que la population. Ce n'est pas le cas du bâtiment dont la répartition de l'emploi suit celle de la population. L'industrie est plus concentrée géographiquement, elle est absente des petits villages et quitte les grandes villes. Les services, enfin, sont les plus concentrés géographiquement, ils sont inconnus des campagnes et offrent l'essentiel de l'emploi dans les grandes villes. Mais de plus en plus, population et emplois quittent les grandes villes et les petits villages. Les secteurs se dispersent géographiquement pour couvrir plus d'espace. Dans ce mouvement de déconcentration, la population a de l'avance, et le domicile s'éloigne du lieu de travail. Les services font cependant exception. Aujourd'hui plus qu'hier, le tertiaire est le plus urbain des secteurs. [eng] Cities: Increasingly Tertiary - The French population is very unevenly distributed over its territory: being massively concentrated in a few cities. Employment is even more concentrated. . Each sector of activity has its own geographical logic. As agriculture requires space, farming jobs are scattered throughout the territory and hence much less concentrated than the general population. In the building industry, on the other hand, the distribution of employment follows that of the population. Industries are more concentrated geographically: they do not exist in small villages and are leaving large cities. Services are the most geographically concentrated: they do not exist in the countryside and constitute the bulk of employment in large cities. However, both population and employment are increasingly leaving large cities and small villages. The sectors of activity are becoming scattered geographically so that they can have more space available. In this process of decentralization, population is ahead of employment, thus people tend to live further from where they work. Services, however, do not follow the rule. Nowadays more than ever before, the tertiary is the most urban of all sectors of activity.

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  • Christophe Terrier, 1990. "Les villes : toujours plus tertiaires," Économie et Statistique, Programme National Persée, vol. 230(1), pages 47-54.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:ecstat:estat_0336-1454_1990_num_230_1_5429
    DOI: 10.3406/estat.1990.5429
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    1. A. Lopez, 1987. "Le monde rural face aux villes," Économie rurale, Programme National Persée, vol. 178(1), pages 76-80.
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    1. Nicole Tabard, 1993. "Des quartiers pauvres aux banlieues aisées : une représentation sociale du territoire," Économie et Statistique, Programme National Persée, vol. 270(1), pages 5-22.
    2. Philippe Julien, 1995. "La "métropolarisation" des actifs structure le territoire," Économie et Statistique, Programme National Persée, vol. 290(1), pages 33-49.
    3. Mohamed Hilal & Virginie Piguet & Bertrand Schmitt, 1995. "Communes rurales et petites villes dans la hiérarchie urbaine," Économie et Statistique, Programme National Persée, vol. 282(1), pages 21-36.
    4. Bernard Aubry, 1996. "La dynamique des territoires : Strasbourg et les autres villes du Bas-Rhin," Économie et Statistique, Programme National Persée, vol. 294(1), pages 165-179.

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