Change of the Urban Periphery: Indicators of Restructuring Existing Spatial Structures
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1999
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The urban development in the last fifty years in Western Europe is characterized by the period of postwar growth, which has provoked the sub- and disurbanisation. The present agglomeration is the result of these processes. This newly developed urban creation is now consolidating and at the same time a process of renewal has begun. This become visible in the increasing need of change, which for example is represented in the growing rate of fallows, costs of renewal for the owners of the buildings but also shown in a more and more small scale and differentiating change of the social structure. In the building investment balance-sheets of Switzerland, in 1989 the costs for urban renewal has forced up the costs for new construction (Wüest and others 1990). But most of these renewal projects take a planless course, in the way for example of facade renovations, modernisations of the ground plans and therefore only short time superficial improvement is produced. Still the demolition rate is less than 0.5 per mille (Wüest and others 1990). And still the urban sprawl of the agglomeration is faster than the population growth. The existing potentials to limit the growth were used inadequately. For the understanding of the growth processes and the slowly starting restructuring of «the urban» there has to be developed a deeper knowledge of the reasons. The period of urban growth was a result of the fordism, which had its dominant period between 1950 and 1975. The need for land for industrial use in the booming branches and residential areas for the employees exploded the borders of the traditional cities. The urban development moved more and more into the environment, the periphery, deep into the urban hinterland.
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Book of abstracts : AESOP PhD workshop 1999, Finse, Depertment of Geography Univeristy of Bergen, Norway
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