Reurbanization
Re-urbanization is the increase in population and employment in the core city . The core city is upgraded. Triggers can be, for example:
- Investing in urban renewal
- Upgrading urban lifestyles
- Structural change ( tertiarization )
- previous suburbanization, which makes living space in the core city affordable again
- higher transport costs (energy prices), which make life in the city relatively cheap
Reurbanization is a cyclical phenomenon, embedded in the urbanization cycle of: urbanization - suburbanization - desurbanization - reurbanization, whereby the individual phases can run parallel and do not necessarily follow one another. The phenomenon of desurbanization has not yet been observed in Germany, but approaches to reurbanization have already been demonstrated. Reurbanization is basically preceded by suburbanization or urbanization.
Examples of re-urbanization are the increasing attractiveness of living in the city again. In Germany, for example, there is increasing interest in moving back to the city, especially among people over 50 years of age. They often want to be able to use the amenities available in the city without having to rely on the car. However, only a few are still implementing their move plans.
There are currently many signs that reurbanization is taking place in Germany. From 2006 to 2015, the population of almost all major cities outside the Ruhr area increased , while they stagnated across Germany. In addition to increased immigration to Germany, internal migration is one of the decisive factors influencing the development and composition of the population in cities and municipalities. They lead to immigration or emigration, to a younger or older population.
See also
Web links
- Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Aspects of re-urbanization by the 50+ generation A study in Westphalian “large cities” and their surrounding areas.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Glasze, Philip Graze: Out of Suburbia, into the city? Study on the future residential mobility of suburbanites of the 50+ generation . In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung , Vol. 65 (2007), Issue 5, pp. 467–473.
- ↑ Angelika Münter, Frank Osterhage: Trend reurbanization? Analysis of internal migration in Germany from 2006 to 2015. Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh 2018 ( bertelsmann-stiftung.de [PDF; accessed on May 2, 2019]).