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Cycles within the System: Metropolitanisation and Internal Migration in the US, 1965-90

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  • James R. Elliott

    (Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1393, USA, jelliott@ssc.wisc.edu)

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This paper uses a typology of local metropolitan development to examine population redistribution trends in the US over the past three decades. Theories of systemic maturation and urban life-cycles are discussed and evaluated. Analysis of population and inter-county migration data reveals that localised deconcentration has become an increasingly common sub-process of metropolitanisation, but that this sub-process cannot be fully explained by a life-cycle model of metropolitan development. More importantly, results indicate that metro-based migration varies significantly with local patterns of metropolitanisation. The nature of this variation implies that declining metropolitan areas tend to redistribute migrants to relatively distant metropolitan and non-metropolitan territory in a manner consistent with extended processes of population deconcentration.

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  • James R. Elliott, 1997. "Cycles within the System: Metropolitanisation and Internal Migration in the US, 1965-90," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 34(1), pages 21-41, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:34:y:1997:i:1:p:21-41
    DOI: 10.1080/0042098976258
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