1. The need for grids Lewis Dijkstra
Deputy Head of the Economic Analysis Unit, DG for Regional and Urban POlicy

2. Three main points Regional and local typologies Analysis
Future uses/benefits

3. 1. Typologies Cities and commuting zone Degree of urbanisation
Urban-rural regional typology
Metro regions
Coastal regions
Future border regions

4. Benefit of the population grid

5. New degree of urbanisation
Type of Area
Criteria
Cities
> 50% pop. in urban centres
Towns and suburbs
< 50% pop. in urban centres
> 50% pop. in urban clusters
Rural area
> 50% pop. in rural grid cells

6. Three degrees of urbanisation
Three grid concepts in Cork (IE)
Three types of municipalities

9. The EU-OECD FUA definition in 3 steps
Define an urban centre of or more
Define a city based on this urban centre (LAU2 or groups of LAU2s)
Define a commuting zone based on this city (including check for polycentric cities)
IMPORTANT! Cities are selected based on the population of their centre, not total population

10. One, two, three

11. Urban-rural regional typology
Predominantly urban: population share of rural raster cells < 20% (> 80% in urban clusters)
Intermediate: population share of rural raster cells between 20% and 50%
Predominantly rural: population share of rural raster cells > 50%
Presence of a city may lead to a shift to predominantly urban or intermediate

13. Other typologies Metro regions Coastal regions Remote regions
Cohesion Policy funds territorial cooperation (9 billion EUR). Population grid could be used to identify border regions more accurately (i.e. regions with a high share of their population living close to a national border).

14. Use cases Access to flights Exposure to air pollution
Access to public transport
Land use modelling (LUISA)
Flood risk
Access to green urban areas …

15. Chapter 1

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17. Density drops away from the centre

18. Future Geocoded statistics NUTS Region changes
Data for grid concepts (instead of LAU-2?)

19. Geocode everything
With more geocoded addresses, buildings, registers, survey respondents, census respondents… it will become easier to produce statistics in variable geographies: labour market areas, remote rural areas, metro regions…

20. Region changes
Regions change frequently in some Member States. Geocoding (or gridding) of micro data can help to re-produce data for new regions

21. Data for grid concepts
Local administrative units change every year in some Member States
As a result degree of urbanisation methodology has to be reapplied annually
Producing data for urban centres, urban clusters and rural grid cells would be more comparable over time and require less effort