A Proposal to Delineate Metropolitan Areas in Colombia

This paper discusses the need to delineate metropolitan areas and current practice in several countries. It argues for the use of a simple algorithm that examines cross-municipality commuting patterns. Municipalities are aggregated iteratively provided they send a share of their commuters, above a g...

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Main Author: Gilles Duranton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) 2015-08-01
Series:Desarrollo y Sociedad
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Online Access:https://economia.uniandes.edu.co/publicaciones/revista-desarrollo-y-sociedad/no-75/a-proposal-to-delineate-metropolitan-areas-in-colombia