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The end of drastic depopulation in rural Finland: Evidence of counterurbanisation?
AbstractThe concrete basis for this paper is the recent stabilisation or eventual deconcentration trend in spatial population development experienced in North Karelia, one of the most drastic depopulation areas up through the early 1970s in Finland and in all of northern Europe. Tentatively, this transformation can be interpreted against the idea of Counterurbanisation, an idea familiar from recent discussions on population and settlement geography throughout the developed capitalist world.Superficially seen, ‘Counterurbanisation’ is also evident — though only tendentially — in North Karelia, regarding both the disappearance of a clear national core-periphery difference in quantitative terms and the significant centrifugal forces in the only truly urbanised area of the region. However, the scattered settlements and some non-central agglomerations in the more remote areas are still suffering from population losses. Thus, the concept of ‘Counterurbanisation’ has only partial relevance here. Therefore, I will aim to conceptualise further a framework for the spatial population development in the context of a multi-level urban and regional system, which expresses, firstly, a dialectical interrelationship between the concentration and deconcentration processes at various regional levels and, secondly, the demographic and socio-economic differentiation involved in it.
The end of drastic depopulation in rural Finland: Evidence of counterurbanisation?
AbstractThe concrete basis for this paper is the recent stabilisation or eventual deconcentration trend in spatial population development experienced in North Karelia, one of the most drastic depopulation areas up through the early 1970s in Finland and in all of northern Europe. Tentatively, this transformation can be interpreted against the idea of Counterurbanisation, an idea familiar from recent discussions on population and settlement geography throughout the developed capitalist world.Superficially seen, ‘Counterurbanisation’ is also evident — though only tendentially — in North Karelia, regarding both the disappearance of a clear national core-periphery difference in quantitative terms and the significant centrifugal forces in the only truly urbanised area of the region. However, the scattered settlements and some non-central agglomerations in the more remote areas are still suffering from population losses. Thus, the concept of ‘Counterurbanisation’ has only partial relevance here. Therefore, I will aim to conceptualise further a framework for the spatial population development in the context of a multi-level urban and regional system, which expresses, firstly, a dialectical interrelationship between the concentration and deconcentration processes at various regional levels and, secondly, the demographic and socio-economic differentiation involved in it.
The end of drastic depopulation in rural Finland: Evidence of counterurbanisation?
Vartiainen, Perttu (author)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 5 ; 123-136
1989-01-01
14 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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