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A striking feature of post-1945 population change in non-metropolitan Australia has been the consistent rapid population growth of a relatively small number of regional cities, in sharp contrast to the limited growth, or population loss, of the majority of country service centres. This study seeks to throw light on the longer-term demographic consequences of this rapid growth for the broader regions in which these growing cities are set, arising from the changing demographic relations between the regional capitals, the smaller urban centres and the dispersed rural element of the population.
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Prophetically, Weinand (1972, 100) commented that “Disparities in the location of spread and backwash effects will identify areas in which too much or too little public capital has been invested”.
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Smailes, P.J., Griffin, T.L.C., Argent, N.M. (2019). Introduction. In: Regional Cities and City Regions in Rural Australia. SpringerBriefs in Population Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1111-6_1
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