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(2009) Enhancing the city, Dordrecht, Springer.
Over the past decades, the history of human geography in many countries has shown a tendency towards more urban patterns of living accompanied by an extension of people's action radius. Urbanization has become a worldwide phenomenon. This is exemplified in Europe, with an average urbanization rate of 70–80%. We observe not only a rise in "urbanity", seen from the perspective of urban or metropolitan population densities, but also new tendencies towards more distant suburbanization or deurbanization patterns. Even rural areas are increasingly being turned into accessible areas that are well connected to urban centres and also display urban lifestyles. "Accessibility" and "mobility" are key words in a modern dynamic space-economy, not only at intraregional scales but also at interregional and even international scales.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2419-0_8
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Nijkamp, P. (2009)., Historico-cultural sustainability and urban dynamics, in G. Maciocco & S. Serreli (eds.), Enhancing the city, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 155-177.
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