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The main aim of this reader is to stimulate debate and continued research on the long term trends of population migration. Demographic trends in developed and less developed countries are highlighted, and long term migration trends are discussed. The book also offers historical perspectives on the beginning of counterurbanization; an overview of contradicting explanations for spatial concentration and deconcentration trends and attempts to integrate the largely compartmentalized migration theory which has developed in the First and Third Worlds over the past 15 years. Part One combines the views of leading scholars, from several disciplines, in a manner which portrays the evolution of thought in the fields of spatial population concentration and deconcentration. Part Two brings together a body of contributions debating the dominance of population concentration and deconcentration at different phases of development. Part Three extends the conceptual framework of the debate by highlighting overlapping views and thus enables the reader to determine the relevancy of related theoretical concepts that explain long term migration trends in both worlds. Based on an analysis of long term migration trends, the book ends with a prognosis of future trends.