Urbanization and the Verticality of Rural–Urban Linkages in Mountains

Haller, Andreas; Branca, Domenico

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“…It is now well established that global urbanization has also affected mountain areas (Haller and Branca, 2022;Perlik, 2011Perlik, , 2019; Wang et al 2019). This occurs either through functional incorporation of mountain areas into metropolitan regions on the mountain fringe (e.g., through commuting to work), through the activity of international mining corporations (Forget, 2015;Romero et al, 2012), or through globally oriented holiday resorts in the high altitudes of the mountains (Nairan and Singh, 2019; Nepal and Jamal, 2011).…”

Section: Lifestyle Mobility: Rural-to-urban and Urban-to-rural Migrat...mentioning

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Rural and Alpine Gentrification Impact on Lifestyle Mobilities During Covid-19: The Yayla Experience at the Taurus Mountains in Turkey

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Güney

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European Countryside

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COVID-19 has had significant impacts on social and economic sectors worldwide. International travel and tourism are restricted as preventive measures to combat the disease. However, it is clearly visible that the mobility from urban to rural areas continues within the borders of the countries during the pandemic. Mobility to the countryside is named as lifestyle mobility. It varies significantly in motivations, frequency, push and pull factors, and duration of stay. It is also considered an essential agent of change that causes gentrification in rural vicinities regarding economic structure, real estate market, and sociocultural life. The recent spread of COVID-19 has also been deemed a vital push for urban-rural mobility. The present study is aimed to explore the gentrification of lifestyle mobilities in the Yaylas of the Taurus Mountains during the pandemic. A mixed-method approach using questionnaire and interview techniques was applied. Results revealed that the duration and frequency of seasonal mobility towards second homes in Turkey have changed with the spread of COVID-19. Moreover, it is found that the selected mountain areas confront the impacts of urbanization, increase in housing prices, and commercial occupation of land. The research concludes that such changes are augmented due to the increased mobility of urbanites belonging to the new middle class of Mersin and Adana metropolitan cities to rural areas to escape COVID-19. Due to the increase in lifestyle mobility, gentrification takes place in rural and mountainous areas, and accordingly, rural residents tend to move to the city.

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Section: Lifestyle Mobility: Rural-to-urban and Urban-to-rural Migrat...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Rural and Alpine Gentrification Impact on Lifestyle Mobilities During Covid-19: The Yayla Experience at the Taurus Mountains in Turkey

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Güney

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“…Küreselleşmeyle birlikte dönüşen kentlerin dağlık alanları da etkilediği artık bilinen bir gerçektir (Perlik, 2011(Perlik, , 2019Wang vd. 2019;Haller & Branca, 2022). Bu, ya dağlık alanların büyük kentlerin çeperinde yer alan ve sürekli olarak genişleyen kente dahil olmasıyla, ya da turizm ve rekreasyon yoluyla kent merkezlerinden daha uzakta gerçekleşmektedir.…”

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Yaşam Biçimi Hareketliliği Bağlamında Orta Toroslar’da Mekansal ve Ekonomik Dönüşüm

ALTUNDAL ÖNCÜ,

SOMUNCU

2023

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Dağlık alanların kırsal üretim mekanlarından tüketim mekanlarına dönüşmesinde bu bölgelerde yaşayan kentli sayısının artışı etkili olmaktadır. Söz konusu süreç kentlilerin daha iyi ve kaliteli bir yaşama erişmek motivasyonuyla dağlık alanlara hareket etmesi olarak ele alınmaktadır. Bu çalışmada Orta Toroslar dağlık alanlarının mekansal ve ekonomik dönüşümünde önemli bir faktör olarak yaşam tarzı hareketliliği ele alınmaktadır. Çalışmada nicel ve nitel araştırma yöntemleri kapsamında 91 kişiden bilgi toplanmıştır. Araştırmanın sonuçlarından en önemlisi, Orta Toroslar’da kent ile bağları kopmayan, ancak dağlık alanlarda yaşayan bireylerin dağlık alanları kentli bilinci ile dönüştürmesine ilişkin bulgulardır. Buna göre emlak ve inşaat sektörleri hareketlenirken, altyapı üzerindeki baskı artmaktadır. Orta yaş üzeri ve emekli profilindeki kentlilerin dağlık alanlara doğru gerçekleştirdiği sezonluk hareketlilik, tarihsel pratiklere dayanan ve gelecekte de artarak sürmesi beklenen bir olgudur.

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Between plaza and peak: a montological perspective on verticality and urbanization in highland Peru

Haller,

Branca,

Cano

2023

J. Mt. Sci.

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Under the influence of concentrated and extended urbanization, Andean cities and the different altitudinal zones of their “hinterlands” are experiencing profound changes in land cover — from the central plazas up to the highest peaks. The complex regional-geographic characteristics of these socioecological systems, such as the vertical complementarity of land use, require a montological perspective on verticality and urbanization: it transcends disciplinary approaches and can be crucial to properly interpret the trajectories of land cover change and formulate hypotheses for future practice-oriented research. Which trajectories of land cover change characterized altitudinal zones of Andean cities and their surroundings over the last three decades? Are there similarities that allow for the formulation of more general hypotheses? Using the Peruvian cases of Cusco and Huaraz, and combining a traditional altitudinal zonation model of land use in Peru with direct field observations and GIS-based analyses of remotely sensed data from 1991, 2001, 2011, and 2021, this study identifies the main trajectories of land cover change in the Quechua (>2300–3500 m), Suni (>3500–4000 m), and Puna (>4000–4800 m) regions — and finds insightful similarities between Cusco and Huaraz: (1) an impressive area of built-up land substitutes grassland in the Quechua, which, following regional altitudinal zonation models, is characterized by irrigated and rain-fed cropland; (2) an unexpected expansion of irrigated cropland takes place in the Suni, which, in theory, often lacks irrigation infrastructure and is mostly used for rain-fed tuber cultivation; and (3) a clear change from “other land” to grassland occurs in the Puna — where grassland is thought to predominate, anyway, since pre-Hispanic times. Hypothesizing that these changes reflect the interplay between speculative fallow, agricultural intensification, and ecological restoration, the results can be read as vertically complementary, local manifestations of concentrated and extended urbanization in a formerly peripheral mountain region of the Global South — and they underscore the need to overcome mental city-mountain dichotomies for a socially inclusive and ecologically balanced Andean development between plaza and peak.

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Urbanization and the Verticality of Rural–Urban Linkages in Mountains

Cited by 3 publications

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Rural and Alpine Gentrification Impact on Lifestyle Mobilities During Covid-19: The Yayla Experience at the Taurus Mountains in Turkey

Rural and Alpine Gentrification Impact on Lifestyle Mobilities During Covid-19: The Yayla Experience at the Taurus Mountains in Turkey

Yaşam Biçimi Hareketliliği Bağlamında Orta Toroslar’da Mekansal ve Ekonomik Dönüşüm

Between plaza and peak: a montological perspective on verticality and urbanization in highland Peru

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