Sylvie Coupleux

Abstract

The multipolar feature of the urban area of Lille appears through aprofusion of flux complicated by the emergence of the new town, Villeneuve d'Ascq.Around the four main poles (Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Villeneuve d'Ascq), areas ofmigratory influence have appeared, within which the redistribution of the populationis accomplished according to the specificity of the communes and the life time of theindividual.

Keywords: migration, structure nodale, multipolaire, redistribution spatiale

Sylvie Coupleux, Laboratoire de Géographie Humaine, Université des Sciences et Techniques de Lille-Flandres-Artois, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Sabine Duhamel, Laboratoire de Géographie Humaine, Université des Sciences et Techniques de Lille-Flandres-Artois, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France