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De-Urbanization in Perspective. Part I
De-Urbanization in Perspective. Part I
Tuesday, 17 July 2018: 15:30-17:20
Location: 202D (MTCC NORTH BUILDING)
RC26 Sociotechnics, Sociological Practice (host committee) Language: English
At the session the presenters will reveal some of the intricate relationships between
urbanization at different stages, human horizontal (spatial) and partial vertical
mobility, and changing rural-urban communities. The conceptual diversity and
many-sided nature of deurbanization as a spatial, societal and cultural-menta
transformation will be examined. The controversial discourse of the latter, which
often implies opposite approaches and phenomena, such as social lifting or
downshifting, is stressed, along with the greater role of individual decisions.
Stronger social and spatial links between cities and rural areas in the globalizing
world manifest themselves in the accelerated formation of the rural-urban
continuum and through the growing recurrent spatial mobility of people. A special
emphasis will be made on analyzing the process of deurbanization in Russia,
Canada, Greece, and other countries.
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Oral Presentations