Out of the many ingredients that together build urban areas, three deserve particular
consideration as their relationship is evolving: the functional centrality, the
morphology of built-up areas and the way of life. Those three characteristics do not
necessarily match along territorial lines anymore. To overcome this limitation, this
article suggests approaching urbanity in terms of cohesion. To illustrate this
approach under a specific analytical point of view, the paper describes a cohesion
index based on the commuter relationships between the Swiss communes from 1970 to
2000. For 2000, further distinction is made between car-based and public
transport-based commuting patterns, which allowed discrimination between two scales
of cohesiveness between the Swiss agglomerations.
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