Railways and Population Distribution: France, Spain, and Portugal, 1870

Railways and Population Distribution: France, Spain, and Portugal, 1870–2000

Published:2011-06 Issue:1 Volume:42 Page:15-28
ISSN:0022-1953
Container-title:The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
language:en
Short-container-title:The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Author:

Mojica Laia¹,Martí-Henneberg Jordi²

Affiliation:

1. Laia Mojica is Scholarship holder of Geography and Sociology, University of Lleida.

2. Jordi Martí-Henneberg is Professor of Human Geography, University of Lleida. He is the author of, with Ian Gregory, “The Railways, Urbanisation and Local Demography in England & Wales, 1825–1911,” Social Science History, XXXIV (2010), 199–228; with Gregory and Francisco J. Tapiador, “A GIS Reconstruction of the Population of Europe, 1870 to 2000,” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, CLXXIII (2009), 31–50.

Abstract

Transportion networks can have a profound influence on economic development and the distribution of population. A long-term comparative study of the influence that rail services exerted on urban growth reveals that the creation of a structured railway network in France, Portugal, and Spain intensified the depopulation of extensive rural areas, as more and more people moved to, and between, cities. Areas that were once relatively small and insignificant began to thrive when the railway reached them.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,History,History and Philosophy of Science,History

Link

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/JINH_a_00203

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