Shrinking Cities International Perspectives and Policy Implications [Hardcover]

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.

Section I: Shrinkage in a Global Perspective  1. Introduction  Karina Pallagst, Cristina Martinez-Fernandez and Thorsten Wiechmann  2. Theoretical Approaches of Shrinking Cities   Emmanu?le 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)&nbslÃV