The Distribution of People and Employment in Metropolitan Commutersheds

The Impact on Rural Housing Markets

Bibliographic Data

ID21570087
AuthorsTodd Denham (0000-0002-3051-5887, RMIT University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume39
Issue2
Pages175-190
Publication date2021-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Policy and Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0811-1146 • E-ISSN: 1476-7244
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08111146.2021.1886917
OpenAlexW3135360406
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited44

The concentration of population in the major metropolitan cities has again become prominent in public debate in Australia. Politicians and commentators have called for an increase in the population of rural areas by improving commuter access to metropolitan employment through infrastructure investments that facilitate commuting from regional places of residence to metropolitan places of work, referred to as metro-bound commuters. This article investigates the impact of commuter-based population growth on rural communities, and particularly housing markets. Increasing rural housing markets indicate a process of gentrification, calling into question policies that promote population redistribution not underpinned by rural employment growth

Business · Demographic economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Gentrification · Geography · Metropolitan area · Political science · Population · Population growth · Public housing · Residence · Rural area · Sociology · Suburbanization · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Rural development and sustainability

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