Desurbanization
De-urbanization , de-urbanization (de-urbanization) or in English counterurbanisation is the absolute population and employment decline in the entire agglomeration of a city. This process of de-urbanization occurs mainly in old industrialized areas (mining, coal and steel industry ) in Western Europe and the USA . A similar process of the loss of importance and population of urban centers can also be observed in the Western Roman Empire during and after the Migration Period and in the Eastern Mediterranean area during the Late Bronze Age collapse, although the causes and mechanisms are partly different in detail.
Desurbanization is a cyclical phenomenon, embedded in the urbanization cycle of urbanization , suburbanization , desurbanization and reurbanization , whereby the individual phases can run parallel and do not necessarily follow one another. In Germany, the phenomenon of desurbanization in the Ruhr area and in the Bergisches Land as well as on the North Sea coast of Lower Saxony has been observed, but approaches to reurbanization have already been demonstrated, for example in East German student cities such as Leipzig.
literature
- Heinz Heineberg : urban geography . UTB, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8252-4015-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Desurbanization. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .