Agglomeration

A agglomeration is an urban unit in general made up of several inter-connected cities which manage their joint projects (Transport S, waste, projects of rehabilitation of districts, etc). An agglomeration is, in the broad sense, defined like a city provided with its Banlieue S: a “urban fabric”.

In Belgium

In Belgium, the Agglomération of Brussels was a public entity in charge of the management of certain economic competences for the 19 communes of Brussels between 1971 and 1989. It was replaced by the Région of Brussels-Capital in 1989.

In France

In France, the agglomeration with the physical direction was defined by INSEE like a urban Unité. To the political direction, the agglomeration returns according to the size to a Urban community, a Communauté of agglomeration or a Communauté of communes.

In Quebec

With the Quebec, the term recently acquired a precise administrative connotation. Following municipal fusions of 2002 and défusions which followed, even if the political parcelling out of the territory of the big cities, it is less than front obliged the formation of political structures for chapeauter amalgamated in the past units. The Agglomeration of Montreal and the Agglomération of Quebec are the administrative entities thus created.

For the ends of statistics, a Québécois urban center is called a RMR (metropolitan region of census), that is to say the territory considered by the authorities of the census as belonging to the urban area in question.

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