Urban Population Development in Germany (2000-2014): the Contribution of Migration by Age and Citizenship to Reurbanisation

Abstract: The increase of the population of large German cities between 2000 and 2014 indicates a reurbanisation process in line with the concept of the "growing city". This exploratory investigation will analyse the influence of internal and external migration on the population development of the German urban system by applying descriptive and statistical methods, going beyond the mere observation of selected cities. This paper shows that reurbanisation in Germany has resulted from various age- and citizenship-dependent combinations of spatial population movements, which in turn express different location advantages and disadvantages. The structural change towards a knowledge economy, the expansion of education, and changing living concepts on the demand versus new urbanistic planning concepts on the supply side strengthen the affinity of different population groups for urban living. This new attractiveness of cities seems to be most distinct among young adults’ motives for living in cities

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Comparative Population Studies - Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft ; 42 (2017) ; 319-351

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(who)
SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
(when)
2017
Creator
Gans, Paul

DOI
10.12765/CPoS-2018-01en
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021070207321449271736
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Gans, Paul
  • SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository

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  • 2017

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