Shrinking Cities: International Perspectives and Policy Implications

ISBN-13: 9781138952874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 318 str.

Karina Pallagst; Thorsten Wiechmann; Cristina Martinez-Fernandez

Opis

The shrinking city phenomenon is a multidimensional process that affects cities, parts of cities or metropolitan areas around the world that have experienced dramatic decline in their economic and social bases. Shrinkage is not a new phenomenon in the study of cities. However, shrinking cities lack the precision of systemic analysis where other factors now at work are analyzed: the new economy, globalization, aging population (a new population transition) and other factors related to the search for quality of life or a safer environment. This volume places shrinking cities in a global perspective, setting the context for in-depth case studies of cities within Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Germany, France, Great Britain, South Korea, Australia, and the USA, which consider specific economic, social, environmental, cultural and land-use issues.

Spis treści

Section I: Shrinkage in a Global Perspective  1. Introduction  Karina Pallagst, Cristina Martinez-Fernandez and Thorsten Wiechmann  2. Theoretical Approaches of "Shrinking Cities"  Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot, Ivonne Audirac, Sylvie Fol and Cristina Martinez-Fernandez  Section II: Urban Change and the Role of Shrinkage  3. Shrinking Cities in the United States in Historical Perspective: A Research Note  Robert A. Beauregard  4. Shrinking Cities in the Fourth Urban Revolution?  Ivonne Audirac  5. The Interdependence of Shrinking and Growing: Processes of Urban Transformation in the USA in the Rust Belt and Beyond  Karina Pallagst  6. The Restructuring of Declining Suburbs in the Paris Region  Marie-Fleur Albecker and Sylvie Fol  7. Growth Paradigm Against Urban Shrinkage: A Standardised Fight? The Cases of Glasgow (UK) and Saint-Etienne (France)  Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot and Hélène Roth  8. Making Places in Increasingly Empty Spaces: Dealing With Shrinkage in Post-Socialist Cities: The Example of East Germany  Thorsten Wiechmann, Anne Volkmann and Sandra Schmitz  9. The Nagasaki Model of Community-Governance: Grassroots Partnership with Local Government  Hiroshi Yahagi  10. Shrinkage and Expansion in Peri-Urban China: Exploratory Case Study from Jiangsu Province  Chung-Tong Wu, Xiao-Lin Zhang, Gong-Hao Cui and Shu-Ping Cui  11. A Cluster of the Four Coal Mining Cities in Korea from a Global Perspective: How Did the People Overcome a Crisis After a Massive Closure of Mines?  Dong-Chun Shin  12. From "Up North" to "Down Under": Dynamics of Shrinkage in Mining Communities in Canada and Australia  Laura Schatz, David Leadbeater, Cristina Martinez-Fernandez and Tamara Weyman  13. Analytic Implications of the Corporate Town Atenquique and Its Shrinkage, Economic and Environmental Decline  José G. Vargas-Hernández  14. Inequality and Urban Shrinkage: A Close Relationship in Brazil  Sergio Torres Moraes  Section III: Strategic and Policy Implications  15. Emerging Regeneration Strategies in the US, Europe and Japan  Jasmin Aber and Hiroshi Yahagi  16. Environmental Sustainability Issues for Shrinking Cities: US and Europe  Helen Mulligan  17. Closing Thoughts  Cristina Martinez-Fernandez, Karina Pallagst and Thorsten Wiechmann

O autorze

Karina Pallagst is professor for International Planning Systems at Kaiserslautern University’s faculty of Spatial Planning.

Thorsten Wiechmann is head of the Department of Spatial Planning and Planning Theory at TU Dortmund University.

Cristina Martinez-Fernandez is a Senior Policy Analyst on Employment and Skills, Green Growth and South-East Asia at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) programme.