Junge Alte als neue „Urbaniten“? Mobilitätstrends der Generation 50plus

Abstract

Senior citizens in general have different expectations regarding their life concepts and the spatial localization of such following their retirement. The ongoing scientific research on the residential mobility of the elderly discerns two contrary processes. Some presume the future senior citizens will act in an analogous way to the elderly nowadays. Thus upon retiring they will leave the city to relocate to the suburbs. Others foresee a trend reversal towards a re-urbanisation accompanied by the renaissance of the city for all age groups including the generation 50plus. These developments were the focus of a study conducted in three major metropolitan areas; the results are discussed in this article. The study assumed that as the generation 50plus grows older their lifestyles and places of residence among other things will differ from the senior citizens of today. The evaluation of the empirical data showed, that the respondents in the greater metropolitan areas did not intend to move to the suburbs upon retirement. Neither do the respondents in the suburbs plan to move to the city. In other words a tendency towards remaining in the current residential areas was detected for the majority of the respondents. Thus if one defines the renaissance of the city by the decreasing number of people leaving the cities, then we can also identify tendencies towards re-urbanisation in the generation 50plus.

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