Births and the City: Urban Cycles and Increasing Socio-Spatial Heterogeneity in a Low-Fertility Context
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/tesg.12454" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/tesg.12454</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12454" target="_blank" >10.1111/tesg.12454</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Births and the City: Urban Cycles and Increasing Socio-Spatial Heterogeneity in a Low-Fertility Context
Original language description
Analysis of fertility trends along urban gradients contributes to assess socio-demographic change at larger scales and the new geography of metropolitan growth at smaller scales. At larger scales, urban fertility was systematically lower than rural fertility, at smaller scales, suburbs were found to have higher fertility than central districts and the neighbouring rural areas. However, fertility divides have rarely been re-contextualised in a long-term perspective, considering the influence of exogenous factors that change over time with urban cycles. Assuming that spatial fertility variations are contextual to the development stage of a given region, the present study goes beyond the traditional 'urban-suburban-rural' divide and provides a long-term vision that integrates small-scale fertility variations and city life cycles. The study investigates spatial trends in a fertility index along a cycle from urbanisation to re-urbanisation in a low-fertility European context (Athens, Greece) using a multi-scale analysis framework. The empirical findings of this study demonstrate that rural fertility was systematically lower than urban fertility apart from a short time interval (1950s). Fertility in urban locations was the highest during earlier stages of urbanisation. In suburban locations, fertility increased during late suburbanisation, stabilising (or declining slightly) with counter-urbanisation. Re-urbanisation was associated with a greater spatial heterogeneity in fertility rates. By documenting a differential response of fertility to urban cycles, our study re-frames the relationship between natural population dynamics and metropolitan transitions, concluding that regional fertility divides are temporary outcomes of a specific ensemble of socio-economic forces underlying a given urban model.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
ISSN
0040-747X
e-ISSN
1467-9663
Volume of the periodical
112
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
195-215
UT code for WoS article
000546374900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85087436752