Households within the residential mobility process: the case of the Barcelona metropolitan region

Journal title ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI
Author/s Cristina López-i-Villanueva, i Rúbies Isabel Pujadas, i Carrasco Jordi Bayona
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2013/108 Language English
Pages 28 P. 57-84 File size 1808 KB
DOI 10.3280/ASUR2013-108004
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Within the residential mobility process, household structure is one of the main explanatory variables of location choice. In large metropolitan areas, such as the Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR), there are presently clearly new divergent residence settlement trends. While family households move to new suburbs, single- person ones and couples with no children go to urban centers or remain in them. Therefore metropolitan municipalities tend to be demographically segregated. Residential mobility is also one of the most important factors in metropolitan municipality growth, and household structure directly affects housing demand characteristics. Results show strong residential dispersion and a household structure territorial specialization.

Keywords: Residential mobility, household structure, housing, Barcelona Metropolitan Region

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Cristina López-i-Villanueva, i Rúbies Isabel Pujadas, i Carrasco Jordi Bayona, Households within the residential mobility process: the case of the Barcelona metropolitan region in "ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI" 108/2013, pp 57-84, DOI: 10.3280/ASUR2013-108004