US regional population growth 2000–2010: Natural amenities or urban agglomeration?

Rickman, Dan S.; Wang, Hongbo

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“…We begin the analysis with 2002 because of data availability of average housing prices at the city level. The length of the time period covers the majority of the post-reform period and approximately matches the length of the time spans of previous applications of the spatial equilibrium growth model: the decade-based analysis of GT (2008) for the last half of the twentieth century, 1990–2000 for Rickman and Rickman (2011), and 2000–2010 for Rickman and Wang (2017).…”

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confidence: 69%

Housing Price and Population Growth across China: The Role of Housing Supply

Wang

Rickman

2019

International Regional Science Review

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In this article, we employ a spatial equilibrium growth model to empirically examine the role of housing supply growth in differences in housing price and population growth across the provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and major cities of mainland China for 2002–2015. Areas in the East, particularly Shanghai, Ningbo, Qingdao, and Xiamen, are found to have had the least growth in housing supply, while autonomous regions and areas in the Southwest and Northeast had the most. The differences in housing supply growth are shown not only to have greatly influenced relative housing price growth, but they also greatly influenced relative regional population growth, suggesting that land and housing supply policies are a critical component of regional growth in China.

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Housing Price and Population Growth across China: The Role of Housing Supply

Wang

Rickman

2019

International Regional Science Review

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“…With this perspective in mind, rethinking territorial strategies and social policies enhancing the resilience of local communities and containing demographic shrinkage in rural districts are, therefore, imperative in the present economic setting [52]. Regional planning oriented towards a complex adaptive system thinking-moving from local to regional resilience-contributes to development paths that are together sustainable and resistant to disturbances [146][147][148]. Assuming that a planning approach oriented toward resilient thinking would secure local communities from the destructive impact of external shocks [149,150], the notion of 'demographically resilient' districts seems to be an appropriate requisite in the identification of homogeneous socioeconomic dynamics that are resultingly particularly stable over space and balanced over time.…”

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Demographic Resilience in Local Systems: An Empirical Approach with Census Data

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This study estimates demographic resilience in local socioeconomic systems of Southern Europe using long-term population dynamics. We assume attractive places with a continuously expanding (resident) population as ‘demographically resilient’, and locations experiencing a persistent decline of population as more fragile to external shocks. Based on these premises, a comprehensive assessment of demographic resilience in more than 1000 municipalities along the urban–rural gradient in Greece, a Mediterranean country with marked regional disparities, was carried out between 1961 and 2011. Municipalities were considered representative of homogeneous local communities, especially in rural areas. The results of non-parametric correlations suggest how basic geographical gradients (coastal–inland and urban–rural) have significantly influenced the demographic resilience of Greek municipalities. These findings outline two contrasting spatial patterns that reflect (i) continuous expansion of peri-urban local communities and (ii) a particularly intense rural shrinkage, linking depopulation to land abandonment and scarce accessibility of inland districts. While long-term population growth in Greece has progressively re-shaped the intrinsic divide in urban and rural areas, the traditional gap in central and peripheral districts is still reflected in the spatial polarization between the ‘demographically resilient’, socially dynamic coastal locations and the ‘demographically fragile’ inland, economically marginal places. These results indicate the persistence of a center–periphery model characterizing long-term settlement expansion in Greece, with spatial patterns delineating ‘resilient’ and ‘fragile’ districts based essentially on infrastructures, accessibility, and amenities.

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“…The presence of natural amenities has long shaped the urban‐to‐rural population redistribution and “the improvement (or degradation) of natural amenities will attract migrants into (or drive residents out of) the region” (Chi & Ventura, 2011a: 557). While some studies (see, for instance, Cheshire & Magrini, 2006; Duranton, 2016; Fukuda, 2012; Rapapport, 2007) focus on weather/climate conditions, others capture natural amenities with measures such as the proximity of a coast, the percentage of forest, water, and/or wetland coverage, the lengths of lakeshores/rivers and coastlines or viewsheds (Chi & Marcouillier, 2013; Rickman & Wang, 2017). A few studies also highlight the presence of spatial heterogeneities in the way natural amenities affect population growth.…”

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Unveiling the local determinants of population growth in the European Union

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This paper studies the population growth dynamics in European NUTS3 regions over the period of 2000–2015 and offers generalizable evidence on the main drivers of population change at this sub‐level of analysis, which is so far rather unexplored. Results obtained by means of a spatial Durbin model highlight the roles of economic and demographic regional conditions in shaping population dynamics and the minor role of geography and environmental conditions. The fact that geographical polarization of population is occurring, which might result in an increase in regional imbalances, calls for policy actions in mitigating this phenomenon.

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US regional population growth 2000–2010: Natural amenities or urban agglomeration?

Cited by 25 publications

References 41 publications

Housing Price and Population Growth across China: The Role of Housing Supply

Housing Price and Population Growth across China: The Role of Housing Supply

Demographic Resilience in Local Systems: An Empirical Approach with Census Data

Unveiling the local determinants of population growth in the European Union

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