title: Urbanization and counter-urbanization in Italy.
abstract: Counter-urbanization in Italy is examined, using data from 1958-1964, 1968-1974, and 1974-1980 from a recent study by the Association of Italian Geographers.  "The paper, divided into four parts, deals consecutively with an examination of the new patterns of dispersed demographic growth; a review of the factors involved in this phenomenon; a discussion of the principal spatial models which describe counter-urbanization; and finally an assessment of the more general significance--social and political--of the process."
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005060:Europe; D005843:Geography; D007558:Italy; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011057:Politics; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013383:Suburban Population; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Europe; Geographic Factors; Italy; Mediterranean Countries; Migration; Migration, Internal; Models, Theoretical; Political Factors; Population; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Socioeconomic Factors; Southern Europe; Spatial Distribution; Suburbanization; Turnaround Migration; Urban Spatial Distribution; Urbanization