Counterurbanisation in Western Europe

Fielding, Anthony

doi:10.1016/0305-9006(82)90006-x

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“…These range from the "rent gap" theories used to explain patterns of gentrification (Darling 2005) through the "exporting" of urban wealth (Rogers 1977), to ideas of the "rural idyll" (Bell 2006;Fielding 1982;Satsangi, Gallent, and Bevan 2010;Woods 2005) and the romantic pull that archetypal rural locations exert on tired and disillusioned urbanites (Champion 2000).…”

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The Social Value of Second Homes in Rural Communities

Gallent

2013

Housing, Theory and Society

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Analyses of the impacts of second home ownership in rural areas, around the world, regularly align with a "loss of community" thesis, linking second homes to a range of negative socio-economic consequences. This article looks again at the second home issue, developing a perspective that attributes a particular social value to temporary and seasonal rural residence. It proposes a framework for thinking about this phenomenon that brings together writings on the nature of place dwelling with ideas of social capital accumulation, and the potential interconnectors that temporary residents provide between the otherwise closed (or more limited) social networks of some rural communities and wider socio-economic and professional worlds. It argues that second homes may give communities a potential store of "bridging" social capital. Moreover, it proposes that second homes have a clear social value within rural community structures, and aims to open a research agenda and debate around the measurement and likely extent of this value.

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The Social Value of Second Homes in Rural Communities

Gallent

2013

Housing, Theory and Society

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“…The list is long: rururbanization (Bauer & Roux, 1976;Ferras, 1998) is used to describe the disperse urbanization of rural areas both close to and distant from urban areas; counterurbanization (Berry, 1976;Cloke, 1985;Fielding, 1982;Champion, 1989;Halfacree, 1994) is used to denote the opposite phenomenon to urbanization; periurbanization or ex-urbanization (Aquachar-Charpentière, 1997) are used in reference to the urbanization of the urban periphery; deurbanization (Entrena, 2004) is a term that draws on economic cycle theory; Neoruralism (Nogué, 1988;Hervouet, 2005;Rivera, 2009) is used to define a migratory phenomenon involving a flow of population from urban to rural areas; it has a strong ideological basis-the return to nature and the desire for an alternative lifestyle. It is driven not by economic motives, but by the desire to live freely in a peaceful, pollution-free setting with a degree of landscape quality.…”

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Preferences for Rural Living: Naturbanization Versus Accessibility

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Astorkiza²

2016

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This paper aims to determine whether the urban sprawl onto the rustic lands of the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve (UBR) is driven by the environmental and landscape qualities of this protected natural area and can be defined as "naturbanization". Aware that residential choice factors are both complex and multidirectional, we have taken, as a comparison scenario, the unprotected rural area which borders with the Reserve (Ex UBR). This enables us to determine whether the housing preferences of new buyers are predominantly driven by the "reserve effect" (naturbanization), or by the appeal of the neighbouring unprotected area which is closer and better communicated to the city (accessibility) and presents less stringent building regulations.Our findings for the UBR reveal a "reserve effect" that would support the naturbanization hypothesis, but the results obtained in both property markets show that the price-boosting impact of the "accessibility/proximity effect" in unprotected rural land is stronger than that of the UBR "reserve/naturbanization effect".Statistical tests conducted on the variables that determine urban sprawl into the non-developable rustic land of protected and unprotected areas serve to establish a definition/characterization of naturbanization that transcends the local/particular and applies to the general, becoming a small theoretical contribution on this issue. We conclude that naturbanization is characterized by factors that influence residential preferences of property buyers (house+rustic land) for protected natural areas. What gives naturbanization a distinctive characteristic is the subjection of such protected areas to specific conservation regulations that restrict choices and decisions of prospective buyers. These facts enrich our understanding of the tradeoffs between nature protection policies and economic development in these areas.

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“…Durante la década de 1950, el patrón general de migración en los países de Europa Occidental estuvo caracterizado por la correlación entre la inmigración y el tamaño de los centros de población (Fielding, 1982). Esta tendencia se vio modificada hacia la década de 1970, durante la cual dicha correlación fue invertida, de tal forma que los centros principales experimentaron una disminución de la inmigración, a la vez que ésta aumentaba en las poblaciones pequeñas y medianas.…”

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“…Los teóricos de la economía y de la geografía regional, sobre todo los anglosajones (Berry, 1976;Fielding, 1982;Berg y otros, 1982), se han ocupado del estudio de tales procesos, los cuales, en realidad, se vienen experimentando en las sociedades occidentales industriales más avanzadas desde la década de 1970 y se están extendiendo, desde hace algún tiempo, en los sistemas urbanos y en los territorios del arco mediterráneo noroccidental. Siguiendo a Dematteis (1995), Font considera que en la constitución del espacio urbano se está produciendo el tránsito «del aglomerado a la red».…”

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Procesos de periurbanización y cambios en los modelos de ciudad

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2005

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ResumenLos procesos de creciente periurbanización, característicos del mundo desarrollado actual, están suponiendo la progresiva expansión de modelos de ciudad desconcentrada, dispersa o difusa, lo que hace que cada vez sean más borrosas e imprecisas las fronteras físicas y sociales entre lo rural y lo urbano. En esta situación, se está experimentando un progresivo aumento de la importancia de las periferias urbanas y una mejora de la imagen de éstas, las cuales, de ser lugares de frecuente exclusión social y subdesarrollo durante la preponderancia de los modelos centralistas de ciudad, están pasando, en bastantes casos, a manifestar un significativo dinamismo socioeconómico. Este artículo, además de analizar los cambios y los nuevos modelos de ciudad derivados de los presentes procesos de periurbanización, trata de identificar algunas de las causas y consecuencias de tales procesos. Causas y consecuencias que se consideran, tanto a nivel general, como a través de la exposición de parte de los resultados de una investigación empírica llevada a cabo en diferentes áreas periurbanas de la Unión Europea. El trabajo concluye con unas reflexiones que se pretende sean útiles para encarar la generalidad de los retos que se les plantean a las actuales políticas reguladoras de las áreas de urbanización dispersa, en tanto que los procesos de periurbanización que dan lugar a las mismas, aunque originados o propulsados por causas o fuerzas diversas, suelen tener consecuencias socioeconómicas, ambientales y urbanísticas similares. Palabras clave: periurbanización, ciudad dispersa, presión urbana, fronteras entre mundo rural y mundo urbano. Abstract. Periurbanization processes and changes in the models of city. An european cases study on their causes and consequencesThe processes of growing periurbanization, which are so characteristic in the current developed world, are giving rise to a progressive spread of diffuse or disperse models of city, what, in turn, is bringing with it that the geographic and social borders between the rural and urban ambits are more and more blurred and vague. In this situation, the urban peripheries are undergoing an increasing relevance, at the same time that their image is improving. These peripheries, from being traditionally places of frequent social exclusion and underdevelopment when the centralist models of city were preponderant, are nowadays showing often a significant socio-economic dynamism. The article, apart from analysing the changes and new models of city coming with the current periurbanization processes, attempts to identify some of the causes and consequences of such processes. Causes and consequences that are considered, both, from a general viewpoint and by presenting some of the results of an empirical research carried out in different periurban areas from the European Union. While being fuelled by diverse causes, periurbanization entails similar socio-economic, urban and environmental outcomes in all the analysed areas. So, the author concludes by reflecting on some of the com...

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Counterurbanisation in Western Europe

Cited by 217 publications

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The Social Value of Second Homes in Rural Communities

The Social Value of Second Homes in Rural Communities

Preferences for Rural Living: Naturbanization Versus Accessibility

Procesos de periurbanización y cambios en los modelos de ciudad

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