title: Counterurbanization:  the British experience.
abstract: "A classification of relatively self-contained functional regions is used to test for the existence of counterurbanization in Great Britain.  It is shown that population deconcentration from Metropolitan to Freestanding Britain was underway during 1961-71 and increased in magnitude in 1971-81.... Reference to annual estimates of population, however, indicate that these counterurban shifts reached a peak in the early 1970s and that after the mid 1970s there was a significant narrowing of the range of growth rates along the metropolitan dimension.  The early 1980s were characterized by a marked reduction in the rate of population loss from the larger metropolitan centres alongside a continuation of relatively rapid growth in the more rural parts of the country."
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005060:Europe; D005843:Geography; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D013997:Time Factors; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Europe; Geographic Factors; Migration; Migration, Internal; Northern Europe; Population; Population Dynamics; Spatial Distribution; Time Factors; Turnaround Migration; United Kingdom