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Counterurbanisation in post-covid-19 times. Signifier of resurgent interest in rural space across the global North?

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Journal of Rural Studies, Volume: 110, Start page: 103378

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103378

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This review paper draws upon a wide range of diverse international sources to give a still relatively early assessment of the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic stimulated a resurgence of counterurbanisation across much of the global North. Whilst it finds and argues that a ‘resurgence’ was appar...

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ISSN: 0743-0167
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