Births and the City: Urban Cycles and Increasing Socio-Spatial Heterogeneity in a Low-Fertility Context

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Births and the City: Urban Cycles and Increasing Socio-Spatial Heterogeneity in a Low-Fertility Context

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Births and the City: Urban Cycles and Increasing Socio-Spatial Heterogeneity in a Low-Fertility Context

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

ISSN

0040-747X

e-ISSN

1467-9663

Svazek periodika

112

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

195-215

Kód UT WoS článku

000546374900001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85087436752