Germany ; Housing ; Rural area ; Rural change ; Rural society ; Settlement
The changes in rural areas are not secondary in intensity to those in the towns. With respect to structure, a highly differentiated picture emerges : newly renovated residential and business premises, many newly erected residential areas
, and, in contrast, the decay of business premises for which there are generally unresolved issues of ownership. In terms of social structure, the rural areas find themselves in a phase of radical change towards irreversible underemployment. The very small
Birth rate ; Comparative study ; Demographic change ; Federal Republic of Germany ; German Democratic Republic ; Germany ; Migration ; Migratory balance ; Migratory flow ; Natural increase ; Population ; Population ageing ; Population geography
The essay examines components of population changes with particular attention to East-West comparison. In the early 1990s Germany was confronted with a high level of immigration (max. 1992, gain of 593 000 foreigners). Whereas in west Germany showed
and children, who occupied a privileged status in the GDR. An increase in motorised mobility, improvements in transport infrastructure, but also changes in the settlement and supply structure are factors which have decisively changed the space-time behaviour
areas have been affected by population decline. Even so the process of suburbanisation, till 1990 without any influence in the GDR, is highly increased. Especially a radical change of locational patterns of retail from central city to the outskirts