Core and periphery in Europe (EU 27개국 ppp기준으로 분류)

Core and periphery in Europe

Source: Adapted from Eurostat (2012a: 21, Map 1.2
출처 : The Geography of the World Economy by Paul Knox (6th) (2014) - 124page

Core and periphery in Europe

The cumulative effects of the differential impact of successive waves of industrialization and reorganization
have often been interpreted in terms of the core and periphery
; the former accumulating capital and economic power, and the latter encountering limitations
(natural or imposed) in its quest for economic development. 

The relative affluence of these core regions is shown in stark fashion in Figure 5.3.
Even though the cost of living is notoriously high around London, Paris, and Milan,
these regions enjoy a prosperity that is well above the overall level
(indexed at 100 for the 27-member European Union). 

Affluent outliers have also emerged in Southern Ireland, Denmark, northeast Scotland, the Basque country of Spain,
and the capital regions of Finland and Sweden. 

In contrast, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, and much of Poland and the Czech Republic are decidedly peripheral.
The European core has variously been interpreted as the triangular region defined
by Lille-Bremen-Strasbourg (the “heavy industrial triangle”),
as an axial belt stretching between Boulogne and Amsterdam in the north
and Besançon and Munich in the south, as a T-shaped region
whose stem extends down the Rhine to Stuttgart. 

Such definitions can be confusing in their variability,
but their main weakness is that they overlook the interdependence that exists between core and periphery.

It is therefore more satisfactory to think in terms of a core consisting of a number of linkages or flows
(e.g., capital, migrants, taxes, tourists, consumer goods, etc.)
that bind core and periphery together, reinforcing their unequal but symbiotic relationship.