Métropolisation transfrontalière et spécialisation sociale à Luxembourg. La concentration spatiale des actifs métropolitans supérieurs

Over the past two decades, Luxembourg has emerged as a small, yet highly specialized metropolis with an expanding cross-border functional area. Generally, this process tends to go hand-in-hand with socio-spatial specialization. This research therefore aims to investigate the spatial concentration of Knowledge-Intensive Services and Hightechworkers in the residential cross-border area, using exploratory spatial data analysis methods. The results show residential clusters of KIS and High-tech workers in and around the main urban centres in 1999 and along the main transport routes connecting these urban centres in 2008. The border and the transport routes therefore appear as driving forces in socio-residential recomposition.