5. Therefore any understanding of the metropolitan/sub-regional economy must begin with an understanding of how activity centres act individually, and as networks
13. MEAM - Methodology 60% ESS 125,000 Jobs 55,824 Non-Centre Based 69,176 Centre based 5,495 KICS 22,197 Strategic 41,485 CS/PS Employment Allocation Centre 1 Jobs Centre 2 Jobs Centre 3 Jobs Centre 1 Land Centre 2 Land Centre 3 Land
20. Scoring: Within each indicator (i.e. diversity), the relevant metric (i.e. percentage of non-retail employment) is assigned a score, ranked from 1-10
21. Targets: The target score is based on the average score and the ‘best-of-type’ score for centres at the relevant level of the hierarchy