| In the South, there is no longer the substantial rural-to-urban migration that we saw before: in the North we no longer have the major expansion of the suburbanisation trends of the seventies. |
| The process of suburbanisation likewise had little impact on the south of Kortrijk, with the exception of the subdivisions that already have been mentioned earlier. |
| In general there are relatively many rural areas, next to mixed urban-rural areas where boundaries between cities and rural areas faded because of suburbanisation. |
| Along with the evaluation of the changes in urban size and form, there are contrasting views on how urban transport policy should accommodate, contain or otherwise guide the processes of suburbanisation. |
| In towns and cities, there is increased migration from the centre to the suburbs accompanied by the suburbanisation of economic activity. |
| The trends towards suburbanisation and urban sprawl lead to low-density, spatially segregated land use. |
