Making sense of counterurbanization

Mitchell, Clare

doi:10.1016/s0743-0167(03)00031-7

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“…Lowry (1990), C.J.A. Mitchell (2004) and other researchers stress that regardless of what drives the migrants, the ultimate results being dispersion or decentralisation of the urban population and repopulation of rural areas are exactly the same.…”

Section: Outflow Of City Dwellers To Rural Areas As Another Stage Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

The scale and the dynamics of permanent migration in rural and peri-urban areas in Poland – some problems

Biegańska¹,

Szymańska²

2013

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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Section: Outflow Of City Dwellers To Rural Areas As Another Stage Ofmentioning

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The scale and the dynamics of permanent migration in rural and peri-urban areas in Poland – some problems

Biegańska¹,

Szymańska²

2013

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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“…This started to change in the 1970s, as researchers began to observe population movements back to rural areas, based in part on quality of life considerations (e.g., Dillman 1979). Today there is an extensive literature on "counter-urbanization" (Mitchell 2004) as people choose to leave or avoid large cities. As mentioned earlier, most long distance moves are motivated by real or perceived employment opportunities, but a sizable minority of moves are due to family circumstances (such as illness and care), lifestyle decisions, and intangible "other" reasons (Molloy et al 2011: 18-19).…”

Section: Where Do People Move?mentioning

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Putting on the moves

Pendakur¹,

Young²

2013

DemRes

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“…Apart from the movers themselves and their preferences; earlier research with concepts such as counter-urbanization (Champion, 2001;Mitchell, 2004) and rural gentrification (Glass, 1964;Phillips, 1993) are sources of inspiration to understand the phenomenon of hotspots. Similarly concepts like rural in-migration as well as rural housing markets are useful to advance the specific research of rural housing market hotspots.…”

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Rural housing market hot spots and footloose in-migrants

Andersson

2013

J Hous and the Built Environ

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This study applies a housing market perspective on hotspots in northern, rural Sweden. It uses the concept 'hotspot' defined as places with rising house prices and in-migration of households with higher than average education and income. The focus rests on three places having the ideal characteristics of being a rural hotspot, located in three Swedish northern municipalities. These places are explored through ten interviews with 'footloose' households. The aim is to explore factors that shape rural housing market hotspots using stories from hotspot population households. The first reason for this study is that regional planning requests understanding to develop different regions and places for the future. Here the origins of hotspots are explored to understand the spread and sustainability of such developments. Second, housing markets in the countryside are more scantily investigated than in urban areas. In the unbalanced housing market with higher prices and limited supply in the urban areas hotspots in rural areas are not following traditional housing market theories, they are rather anomalies. Interviews with a specific footloose group of recent hotspot in-migrants are used in combination with knowledge about the housing market. Results show that although hotspots are locations with beautiful nature most households moved there because of finding jobs. The three areas have the 'extra' nature values and high status required for being a hotspot and a location for commuting to larger labor markets. The 'footloose' non-return migrants did find nice, cheaper housing that made them chose the area despite being strangers to the place. I suggest hotspots are the rare combination of footloose migrants and special places which make them difficult to develop elsewhere.

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Making sense of counterurbanization

Cited by 324 publications

References 101 publications

The scale and the dynamics of permanent migration in rural and peri-urban areas in Poland – some problems

The scale and the dynamics of permanent migration in rural and peri-urban areas in Poland – some problems

Putting on the moves

Rural housing market hot spots and footloose in-migrants

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