Non-Metropolitan Population Growth and the Evolution of Rural Service Centres in the Canadian Prairie Region

Stabler, Jack C.

doi:10.1080/00343408712331344248

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“…Other empirical studies to highlight in America are those of Canada from second half of the eighties, highlighting Stabler (1987), Davies (1990) who maintain that there is a recovery of the metropolitan areas in recent years, which is in keeping with the results of the most recent investigations being carried out in the United States.…”

Section: Regional Monographical Studiesmentioning

confidence: 63%

Is the counterurbanization process a chaotic concept in academic literature?

Sexto¹

2009

Geogr Pannon

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Counterurbanization has been considered as a chaotic concept in the academic literature. It entails demographic movement and deconcentration in some urban areas and appears to be a new process of population's spatial distribution and the definition of a new settlement pattern which may exceed the Central Place Theory. The results of this process and demographic movement have led to societal diversification and even to the emergence of new classes in the countryside and new urban-rural relationships. We can ask ourselves if there are similarities to the Theory of Even Polycentric Development and if counterurbanization is really an opportunity for peripheral and rural areas. Academic literature about the development of the new economy tied to the III Technological Revolution demonstrates that the obstacle within economic development of spatial dimension and geographical distance is abating. In such circumstances it is not surprising that both problems and opportunities arise when it comes to making territory planning policies. This paper focuses on analyzing the international scientific literature on counterurbanization -particularly that of Anglosaxon and Latin-America countries-with an aim to contribute to the search of meaning in the arguments which support the definition of counterurbanization and to foster its research.

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Section: Regional Monographical Studiesmentioning

confidence: 63%

Is the counterurbanization process a chaotic concept in academic literature?

Sexto¹

2009

Geogr Pannon

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“…Otros estudios empíricos a destacar en América son los que se realizan en Canadá a partir de la segunda mitad de la década de los ochenta, destacando Stabler (1987), Davies (1990) que sostienen que se está a producir una recuperación de las áreas metropolitanas en los últimos años, lo que se encuentra en clara consonancia con los resultados de las últimas investigaciones que se están llevando a cabo en los Estados Unidos En suma, las investigaciones empíricas en los Estados Unidos y Canadá se han hecho más pormenorizadas con el paso de los años, se ha descendido en la escala de análisis pasando de la demostración de la existencia del proceso en base a estadís-ticas demográficas generales, a analizar su génesis y repercusiones en el mundo rural y urbano fundamentándose en metodologías más concretas y precisas.…”

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El enigma de la contraurbanización: Fenómeno empírico y concepto caótico

Ferrás

2007

EURE (Santiago)

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Counterurbanization has been considered as a chaotic concept in the academic literature. It entails demographic movement and deconcentration in some urban areas and appears to be a new process of population's spatial distribution and the definition of a new settlement pattern which may exceed the Central Place Theory. The results of this process and demographic movement have led to societal divesification and even to the emergence of new classes in the countryside and new urban-rural relationships. In such circumstances it is not surprising that both problems and opportunities arise when it comes to making territory planning policies. This paper focuses on analizing the international scientific literature on Counterurbanization-particularly that of Anglosaxon countries-with an aim to contribute to the search of meaning in the arguments which support the definition of Counterurbanization and to foster its research both in Spain and Latinamerica.

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“…The study of service centre systems was one of the most popular ®elds of interest in urban and regional studies during the 1950s and 1960s. Some students of settlement systems, such as Stabler (1987) and Marshall (1989), have continued the original interest in the commercial differentiation of places. Others have extended the classi®catory approach to small towns by incorporating a greater range of economic and demographic criteria, as well as dealing with population and process changes, such as in the studies of`country towns' in Australia (Sorensen & Weinand 1985;Sorensen & Epps 1993;Beer, Bolam & Maude 1994).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Survival of Commercial Hierarchies: Rural Service Centres in Western Victoria, Australia

Davies

Townshend

1998

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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A case study of rural service centres in Western Victoria, Australia, is used to determine whether the pattern of commercial activity produces hierarchical centres or dispersed cities composed of groups of specialised towns. Cluster analysis techniques applied to a 216 place 6 83 matrix of functional types identi®ed seven major grades of place that could be generalised as a hierarchical distribution, a ®nding con®rmed by discriminant analysis techniques. Differences in the distribution of these grades across Western Victoria revealed the in¯uence of population density and distance from the Melbourne metropolitan area. Population changes for these centres between 1971 and 1991 revealed a continuation of the decline or stagnation of the lower order centres, rather than any small town revival associated with counter-urbanisation forces.

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Non-Metropolitan Population Growth and the Evolution of Rural Service Centres in the Canadian Prairie Region

Cited by 15 publications

References 11 publications

Is the counterurbanization process a chaotic concept in academic literature?

Is the counterurbanization process a chaotic concept in academic literature?

El enigma de la contraurbanización: Fenómeno empírico y concepto caótico

The Survival of Commercial Hierarchies: Rural Service Centres in Western Victoria, Australia

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