The growth and decline of urban agglomerations in Germany

Benjamin D. Hennig

Environment and Planning A, 2019, vol. 51, issue 6, 1209-1212

Abstract: Half the population of Europe’s largest economy by population and economic output lives in 30 main urban agglomerations. This paper presents a series of cartogram visualisations of population changes in Germany for these areas that happened in the period 2008–2013. Most of the areas have seen an urban renaissance by regaining growth. After a long period of suburbanisation, growth started returning to city centres. Among the few declining major urban agglomerations, the old industrial Ruhr area stands out, with an overall decline that is larger than any decline in all other major urban agglomerations put together. Population decline in the analysed period almost exclusively took place in suburban areas. Both trends mark an important change in the population dynamics of these major urban regions in the country.

Keywords: Cartogram; Germany; population; cartography; urban agglomerations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/0308518X18798835

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