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Migratiebewegingen als maatstaf van verstedelijking: een ecologische studie over de Brugse agglomeratie

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Abstract

Migrations as a standard of urbanisation: an ecological study about the agglomeration of Bruges - The ecological approach to the urbanization of a given urban area happens by ecological interactions which can be formulated by means of the concentration and the deconcentration processes. We quantitatively express those processes by the standards of migrations. Thus, the segregation of age, type of family, sole removers, sexratio become clear. The American sociological method can be applied to European cities. Our study has tried to recognize the working of the urban organism within small towns. The segregation was the fundamental process, that gave the city and the suburbs their specific function. The city itself quickly loses its residential function. Depopulation, familial diminution, the construction of flat buildings and the aging of the population are characteristics that, together, form the phenomenon of cityformation. This also presents itself in Bruges. The suburbs are the swelling area that more and more performs the residential function, because the segregation gathers the families. We have followed the growing process from 1948 up to now. The economical boom of the early sixties has stimulated this growth. Nevertheless, new characteristics occured in 1964. The suburbs took over several city-features. Here and there familial diminution was seen, aging to took settle place, down single in the residents suburbs. left the city — in contrast with former years — At the very moment, those characteristics appear in the suburbs, the “banlieu”-municipalities begin to grow almost immediately. They adopt former features from the suburb-municipalities. Although this subject was of no immediate concern in our study, the booming of the banlieu-municipalities explained the bias towards city-structure of the suburbs. Here we face the so-called “crater-effect” by which a wave recedes from the core. The centre of population, that we found in the old city, a fifty years ago, lay in the suburbs after the second world war and is now moving towards the banlieu-municipalities. The town extends itself into the rural area. The processes of suburbanization and rurbanization, recently described, become important in the further citifying of the urban region.

How to Cite:

Vranckx, L., (1967) “Migratiebewegingen als maatstaf van verstedelijking: een ecologische studie over de Brugse agglomeratie”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen 12(4), 421–451. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95783