While urbanization trends have been characterized for a long time by deconcentration of inner cities with expansion of low-density settlements, economic repolarization leading to re-urbanization and recovery of central districts are now counterbalancing population shrinkage in compact urban areas and slowing down suburban growth. In this context, the recent demographic evolution of a large metropolis such as Athens (Greece)-following expansion, crisis, and a more subtle economic recovery-may reveal original relationships between form and functions at the base of recent urban growth. Based on an exploratory analysis of demographic indicators on a metropolitan and urban scale, the present study provides an updated and integrated knowledge framework that confirms and integrates the most recent urban trends in southern Europe. Documenting the emergence of more individualized paths of urban expansion at the local scale (recovery of the historic center, shrinkage of semicentral neighborhoods, 'reverse gentrification' of disadvantaged peripheral areas, late suburbanization of accessible peripheral areas), results of the present study justify an ad hoc analysis of metropolitan growth based on demographic indicators as a proxy for sustainable land management and local development.

Uncovering demographic trends and recent urban expansion in metropolitan regions. A paradigmatic case study / Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir, R.; Egidi, G.; Mosconi, E. M.; Poponi, S.; Alhuseen, A.; Salvati, L.. - In: SUSTAINABILITY. - ISSN 2071-1050. - 12:(2020), pp. 3937-3951. [10.3390/su12093937]

Uncovering demographic trends and recent urban expansion in metropolitan regions. A paradigmatic case study

Salvati L.
2020

Abstract

While urbanization trends have been characterized for a long time by deconcentration of inner cities with expansion of low-density settlements, economic repolarization leading to re-urbanization and recovery of central districts are now counterbalancing population shrinkage in compact urban areas and slowing down suburban growth. In this context, the recent demographic evolution of a large metropolis such as Athens (Greece)-following expansion, crisis, and a more subtle economic recovery-may reveal original relationships between form and functions at the base of recent urban growth. Based on an exploratory analysis of demographic indicators on a metropolitan and urban scale, the present study provides an updated and integrated knowledge framework that confirms and integrates the most recent urban trends in southern Europe. Documenting the emergence of more individualized paths of urban expansion at the local scale (recovery of the historic center, shrinkage of semicentral neighborhoods, 'reverse gentrification' of disadvantaged peripheral areas, late suburbanization of accessible peripheral areas), results of the present study justify an ad hoc analysis of metropolitan growth based on demographic indicators as a proxy for sustainable land management and local development.
2020
Gentrification; Migratory balance; Shrinkage; Suburbanization; Urban growth
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Uncovering demographic trends and recent urban expansion in metropolitan regions. A paradigmatic case study / Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir, R.; Egidi, G.; Mosconi, E. M.; Poponi, S.; Alhuseen, A.; Salvati, L.. - In: SUSTAINABILITY. - ISSN 2071-1050. - 12:(2020), pp. 3937-3951. [10.3390/su12093937]
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