Volume 28, Issue 4-4, December 2024
EXPLORING THE CONTEMPORARY SPATIAL AND TEMPORARY DYNAMICS OF THE SETTLEMENT HIERARCHY AND SYSTEM IN SERBIA’S SREM REGION.
Authors: Bojan Đerčan, Dajana Bjelajac, Milka Bubalo Živković, Tamara Lukić, Dragica Gatarić, Zorica Pogrmić
Abstract: Newer trends of balanced regional development emphasize the development of functional integrational areas and strong spatial and functional relations based on the nodal concept and a functional process approach. Therefore, it is essential to determine the hierarchy of settlements in the network, which defines their demographic and functional capacity. This paper identifies the nature and characteristics of urban primacy in the Srem region in Serbia, using the rank-size rule and urban primacy index, as well as the hierarchy of settlements in the network, by calculating the importance of secondary activities and the centralization of the settlements. The results confirmed that while urban primacy is not expressed, the hierarchy of the settlements remains dominated by urban and suburban centres.
Keywords: settlement hierarchy, settlement network, primacy, rank-size rule, Srem, Serbia
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Received: June 19, 2024| Revised: November 25, 2024| Accepted: December 4, 2024