Population change in the suburbanized areas of the Federal Republic of Germany with special reference to Hamburg (1970-1987)

The population development at the county level between 1970 and 1987 demonstrates convincingly the influence of suburbanization on spatial population shifts. The central cities in the metropolitan areas had the greatest population losses, whereas the counties in their environs registered gains of almost 50 % in some cases. These population changes originating in intraregional migration lose their dynamism in the 1980s, particularly in metropolitan areas with unfavorable economic structures. This paper shows at the county level for the Federal republic of Germany as a whole and especially for the example of the metropolitan area of Hamburg that the suburbanization process continued to spread and thus affected communes lying farther from the central cities and that it caused progressive spatial segregation within the agglomerations according to demographic and social characteristics

Archaeology · Census · Dynamism · Economic geography · Geography · Metropolitan area · Population · Sociology · Suburbanization · Urban agglomeration · Demography · Urbanization and City Planning