SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
The SEG research group focuses on all social and economic activities and developments on the earth's surface.
Research
The Social and Economic Geography research group (SEG) focusses on three clusters.
First of all, SEG analyses travel behaviour and city logistics.
Second, there is an emphasis on present-day evolutions in the Flemish urban system, urban policy, and the formation of a world city network.
Finally, SEG also investigates location decisions of private and public companies, the relationship between transport and production, and land use modelling.
Keywords: urban development — world city network — travel behaviour — transportation — transportation land development
News
On May 31, 2018, Prof. Frank Witlox (head of research unit Social and Economic Geography, Department of Geography, Ghent University) gave a keynote lecture at the “Smart City for the Citizens 2018: Urban Mobility” (Tartu, Est…
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The demand for business area in West-Flanders has been assessed in 2006 by P. Cabus and W. Vanhaverbeke. Nine years later the Province of West-Flanders decided to redo the exercise for the periods 2017-2022 and 2022-2027, as …
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