[Urbanization and development of the urban population in the German Democratic Republic].
PETERMANNS GEOGRAPHISCHE MITTEILUNGEN 1980;
124:117-26. [PMID:
12263766]
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Abstract
The authors present evidence that "urbanisation in the GDR [German Democratic Republic] has considerably increased within the last 30 years though statistically the urban population has only slightly grown. Urbanisation is seen as a socio-economic process, as a stage-by-stage transition from the rural to the urban way of life. The socialist changes led to a spread and consolidation of the urban way of life. With the population trend stagnant, there are long-term regional concentration processes apparent, marked by the further development and a more equal distribution of large and medium towns." (SUMMARY IN ENG, RUS)
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