Evolving Reurbanisation? Spatio-temporal Dynamics as Exemplified by the East German City of Leipzig

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ID10861925
AutoresNadja Kabisch (0000-0002-8925-4423, Department for Applied Landscape Ecology, UFZ - Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Permoserstrasse 15, Leipzig, 04318, Germany, autor de correspondencia), Dwight Haase (0000-0003-4065-5194, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research), Dagmar Haase (Department for Applied Landscape Ecology, UFZ - Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Permoserstrasse 15, Leipzig, 04318, Germany), Annegret Haase (0000-0002-8492-9161, Department for Applied Landscape Ecology, UFZ - Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Permoserstrasse 15, Leipzig, 04318, Germany)
Año2010
Volumen47
Número5
Páginas967-990
Fecha de publicación2010-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0042098009353072
OpenAlexW1979764139
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas57
Referencias citadas37

After a decade of tremendous population loss indicating severe decline, some large east German cities have been displaying signs of reurbanisation since the late 1990s. Using the city of Leipzig as an example, this paper identifies the major characteristics, progress and underlying spatio-temporal dynamics of reurbanisation, and examines whether it is a long-term process of urban living or features only short-term tendencies. Socio-demographic indicators are used to observe the development of inner-city districts. At the spatial scale of municipal districts, time-series data are analysed for the years 1993 to 2005. The paper argues that reurbanisation has occurred primarily in inner-city districts and has progressed considerably since the early 1990s. However, the spatio-temporal distribution of the relevant indicators shows that reurbanisation is far from being a homogeneous process. In light of this, the paper presents a ring of reurbanisation-sensitive municipal districts around the city centre

Archaeology · Cartography · Distribution (mathematics · Economic geography · Geography · German · Homogeneous · Inner city · Population · Regional science · Scale (ratio · Sociology · Demography · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Rural development and sustainability · Urbanization and City Planning