Natural population growth and urban management in metropolitan regions: Insights from pre-crisis and post-crisis Athens, Greece

Sabato Vinci, Gianluca Egidi, Rosanna Salvia, Antonio Gimenez Morera and Luca Salvati
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Sabato Vinci: Third University of Rome, Italy
Gianluca Egidi: University of Tuscia, Italy
Rosanna Salvia: University of Basilicata, Italy
Antonio Gimenez Morera: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

Urban Studies, 2022, vol. 59, issue 12, 2527-2544

Abstract: Between the 1970s and the 1990s, cities in Southern Europe experienced a progressive delocalisation of population, settlements and activities over larger regions. Economic downturns have increasingly influenced more recent waves of metropolitan growth, shaping differentiated patterns of urban change. While some cities evolved towards accelerated population dynamics in central districts responding to re-urbanisation impulses, other agglomerations were intrinsically bounded in a sort of ‘late suburbanisation’, with demographic shrinkage of both inner districts and rural areas, and uneven expansion of suburban population. By providing a comprehensive interpretation of the socioeconomic mechanisms underlying recent urban expansion, this study illustrates a diachronic analysis of population dynamics over multiple spatial scales and time frames in a metropolitan region of Southern Europe (Athens, Greece) between 1999 and 2019. Natural population balance was investigated vis à vis selected territorial indicators using descriptive, inferential and multivariate statistics. Results of the analysis identify different social forces underlying suburban population growth during economic expansion (2000s) and recession (2010s), evidencing a distinctive response of local communities to economic downturns that depends mostly on the background context (affluent versus disadvantaged neighbourhoods). Given the multiplicity of territorial dimensions involved in urban growth, our findings highlight how economic downturns distinctively shape metropolitan development based on locally differentiated demographic dynamics.

Keywords: multivariate statistics; natural population balance; Southern Europe; suburbanisation; urban governance; 多元统计; è‡ªç„¶äººå £å¹³è¡¡; å —æ¬§; 郊区化; åŸŽå¸‚æ²»ç † (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/00420980211035041

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