Who Stays and Who Leaves? Residential Flows in French Shrinking Cities

Mathilde Rudolph — 2017-11-01T06:00:00Z

In focusing on residential flows, Mathilde Rudolph seeks to shed light on the processes of urban decline at play in France. She emphasizes how these flows are socially selected and ultimately entrench differences in social composition between shrinking cities and growing cities, as executives appear to avoid shrinking cities while manual workers are more prone to stay.
---- Series: Shrinking Cities With the growing literature on the subject of shrinking cities, it has become easier to gain a

- From the Field / France, residential mobility, deindustrialization, blue-collar workers, manual workers, shrinking cities, urban decline, urban shrinkage, degrowth, shrinkage, executives

Shrinking Cities in France: The Cumulative Effects of Decline

2017-10-04T05:00:00Z

In France, different shrinking cities have followed different trajectories. They nevertheless all have certain characteristics in common: specific types of ageing population, labour market and gender distribution that increasingly set them apart from growing cities, and could exacerbate their demographic decline in the medium term.
---- Series: Shrinking Cities Population decline currently concerns over a third of functional urban areas (FUAs) in mainland France and Corsica: using the zoning

- From the Field / France, deindustrialization, migration, population, shrinking cities, urban decline, urban shrinkage, degrowth, shrinkage, demographics, demography, fertility

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Who Stays and Who Leaves? Residential Flows in French Shrinking Cities

Shrinking Cities in France: The Cumulative Effects of Decline