ABSTRACT
Urban decentralization is one of the most powerful trends shaping our built environments. Yet traditional methods used for tracing this trend have concentrated on the relative weakening of the central city, instead of the resultant restructuring of the entire urban space. In this paper a methodology designed to encompass the structural changes occurring throughout the urban area, however defined, is developed and demonstrated. The suggested methodology is compared with the performance of previously used methods, utilizing data for the Tel Aviv, Israel, metropolitan region.
