ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|30 pages
Shrinkage in a Global Perspective
part II|223 pages
Urban Change and the Role of Shrinkage
chapter 5|19 pages
The Interdependence of Shrinking and Growing
chapter 7|26 pages
Growth Paradigm against Urban Shrinkage
chapter 8|22 pages
Making Places in Increasingly Empty Spaces
chapter 9|17 pages
The Nagasaki Model of Community Governance
chapter 10|22 pages
Shrinkage and Expansion in Peri-Urban China
chapter 11|19 pages
A Cluster of the Four Coal Mining Cities in Korea from a Global Perspective
chapter 12|19 pages
From “Up North” to “Down Under”
part III|53 pages
Strategic and Policy Implications