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Cycles within the system: Metropolitanisation and internal migration in the US, 1965-90
| Author: |
Elliot, James |
| Date: |
1997 |
| Periodical: |
Urban Studies |
| Abstract: |
This paper uses a typology of local metropolitan development to examine population redistribution trends in the US over the past three decades. Theories of systemic maturation and urban life cycles are discussed and evaluated. Analysis of population and inter-county migration data reveals that localized deconcentration has become an increasingly common sub-process of metropolitanisation, but that this sub-process cannot be fully explained by a life-cycle model of metropolitan development. More importantly, results indicate that metro-based migration varies significantly with local patterns of metropolitanisation. The nature of this variation implies that declining metropolitan areas tend to redistribute migrants to relatively distant metropolitan and non-metropolitan territory in a manner consistent with extended processes of population deconcentration. |
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