Des petites villes davantage touchées par la décroissance ? Comparaison des trajectoires démographiques à l’échelle européenne (1961-2011)
Cities under 50,000 inhabitants represent almost 75 percent of European built-up urban areas and constitute essential nodes of the European space. However, metropolization processes raise the question of the future of these small cities in the long term. Within the framework of a comparative approac...
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Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography
2019-07-01
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| author | Paul Gourdon Anne Bretagnolle Marianne Guérois Antonin Pavard |
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| description | Cities under 50,000 inhabitants represent almost 75 percent of European built-up urban areas and constitute essential nodes of the European space. However, metropolization processes raise the question of the future of these small cities in the long term. Within the framework of a comparative approach based on a harmonized database (TRADEVE), this paper aims at exploring the demographic trajectories of small towns regarding the regional settlement patterns in which they are located. The two methods used for understanding the longitudinal dimension of such trajectories converge and highlight a relative over-representation of a structural, regular and historical decay in isolated rural areas. Nevertheless, this same trend concerns, in absolute value, a very significant number of small towns in dense and urban regions facing a difficult industrial reconversion and/or an ageing population, particularly in Western Europe. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f6de7e01bff74cccbe3cbdb3b67470e72022-12-21T22:49:20ZengSociété Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of GeographyBelgeo1377-23682294-91352019-07-01310.4000/belgeo.34876Des petites villes davantage touchées par la décroissance ? Comparaison des trajectoires démographiques à l’échelle européenne (1961-2011)Paul GourdonAnne BretagnolleMarianne GuéroisAntonin PavardCities under 50,000 inhabitants represent almost 75 percent of European built-up urban areas and constitute essential nodes of the European space. However, metropolization processes raise the question of the future of these small cities in the long term. Within the framework of a comparative approach based on a harmonized database (TRADEVE), this paper aims at exploring the demographic trajectories of small towns regarding the regional settlement patterns in which they are located. The two methods used for understanding the longitudinal dimension of such trajectories converge and highlight a relative over-representation of a structural, regular and historical decay in isolated rural areas. Nevertheless, this same trend concerns, in absolute value, a very significant number of small towns in dense and urban regions facing a difficult industrial reconversion and/or an ageing population, particularly in Western Europe.http://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/34876small citiesdecayEuropecomparative approachoptimal matching |
| spellingShingle | Paul Gourdon Anne Bretagnolle Marianne Guérois Antonin Pavard Des petites villes davantage touchées par la décroissance ? Comparaison des trajectoires démographiques à l’échelle européenne (1961-2011) Belgeo small cities decay Europe comparative approach optimal matching |
| title | Des petites villes davantage touchées par la décroissance ? Comparaison des trajectoires démographiques à l’échelle européenne (1961-2011) |
| title_full | Des petites villes davantage touchées par la décroissance ? Comparaison des trajectoires démographiques à l’échelle européenne (1961-2011) |
| title_fullStr | Des petites villes davantage touchées par la décroissance ? Comparaison des trajectoires démographiques à l’échelle européenne (1961-2011) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Des petites villes davantage touchées par la décroissance ? Comparaison des trajectoires démographiques à l’échelle européenne (1961-2011) |
| title_short | Des petites villes davantage touchées par la décroissance ? Comparaison des trajectoires démographiques à l’échelle européenne (1961-2011) |
| title_sort | des petites villes davantage touchees par la decroissance comparaison des trajectoires demographiques a l echelle europeenne 1961 2011 |
| topic | small cities decay Europe comparative approach optimal matching |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/34876 |
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