Rural flight
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Rural flight is the migratory pattern of people from rural areas into urban areas. It is urbanization seen from the rural perspective. The pattern arises from an interplay of various push and pull fac
Population age comparison between rural Pocahontas County, Iowa, and urban Johnson County, Iowa, illustrating the flight of young female adults (red) to urban centers in Iowa
The effects of the Dust Bowl in Dallas, South Dakota, May 1936
An abandoned post office in Menkovo, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
A Chinese migrant worker leaving the worksite after a shift in a city.
The depopulation of the Great Plains refers to the large-scale migration of people from rural areas of the Great Plains of the United States to more urban areas and to the east and west coasts during
Abandoned gas station west of North Platte, Nebraska