Suburban areas centrality and territorial synergies: a challenge for sustainability in Grenoble Urban Region
This paper aims to define the role of suburban areas in the context of sustainable regional development. A statistical analysis is carried out on individual daily mobility data collected in Grenoble Area (France) in order to detect where the flows are polarized. The analysis show how inhabitant’s travel patterns motivated by several activities as job, shopping and leisure result in a polycentric hierarchical spatial structure. Further, we explain which are the functions of each detected centrality and how it helps to discuss potential complementarities between the different centralities in the region.