Inner-city transformation between reurbanization and gentrification: Leipzig, eastern Germany

Second wave gentrification in inner-city Sydney

There are few processes more central to the social and cultural transformation of the inner city in the past half century than gentrification. The social and economic changes that have engendered gentrification have transformed its character and meaning; it has become principally a strategy for redevelopment of brown field sites by the state and capital interests. Based on research in the forme...

Inner-City Gentrification Simulation Using Hybrid Models of Cellular Automata and Multi-Agent Systems

Gentrification, as one example of complex urban behaviors, has enjoyed the spotlight among researchers in various fields of study such as economics, politics, sociology, and geography for about four decades. Most former research discusses theoretical issues, causes, and consequences of gentrification, but do not typically focus on building models to describe the dynamical process of gentrificat...

Investigating The Co- Movement And Causality Between Iran And Germany

Explaining reurbanization: Empirical evidence of intraregional migration as a long-term mobility decision from Germany

Following the discussion on reurbanization (changing intra-regional migration patterns), our research project treats transport-related consequences of this spatial development in German city regions. The hypothesis is that reurbanization bears potential to spread environmentally friendly ways of organizing daily mobility – but that the chance of those positive effects might be given away, if po...

Economic Transition in Eastern Germany

ONLY A FEW months after the Berlin Wall came down in the fall of 1989, the West German government decided that it should establish a currency union with East Germany. I Shortly thereafter, the West and East German governments agreed to economic, monetary, and social union. By July 1991, the State Treaty, which formalized the union, came into force; by October, the German Democratic Republic cea...