Demographic Patterns of Reurbanisation and Housing in Metropolitan Regions in the US and Germany

"After decades of decline, first signs of a central and inner city revitalisation were noticed towards the end of the 1980s in North American metropolitan areas. The repopulation and redevelopment of the metropolitan cores - often referred to as 'reurbanisation', 'urban renaissance' or 'back-to-the-city-movement' - has accelerated since then and is today one of the outstanding characteristics of r…