Persistence preferred – on future residential (im)mobility among the generation 50plus

Abstract: The current academic discussion on residential mobility among the elderly mainly deals with two contradictory processes: Either it is assumed that future generations will behave as this generation does with respect to their conceptions of life and their choice of residence and a significant number will leave the cities upon retirement in order to settle in suburbia. Or a fundamental trend reversal is expected towards reurbanization and urban revival for all age groups and thus the generation 50plus also. For an investigation in the Munich metropolitan area, whose results are discussed here, it was at first assumed that the seniors of the generation 50plus would clearly behave differently than today’s elderly, i.e. would be characterized by different lifestyles that would perhaps also be realized in other (residential) locations. The evaluation of the empirical data showed that those surveyed in the Munich metropolitan area are neither planning to leave the city in large numbers nor.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/2630

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Persistence preferred – on future residential (im)mobility among the generation 50plus ; volume:63 ; number:2 ; year:2009 ; Erdkunde ; 63, Heft 2 (2009)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Kramer, Caroline ; Pfaffenbach, Carmella

Further information

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2009.02.04
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410281818520.897478727660
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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