Krimp Database Recensies
Future Directions for the European Shrinking City
While many cities are shrinking the attention for this topic is on the rise. Mostly, the media, policy makers and spatial planning researchers have been attracted to the phenomenon of shrinking cities (in the book also referred to as ‘urban...
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Urban growth and decline: Europe’s shrinking cities in a comparative perspective 1990-2010
In this paper* the authors draw attention to the complexity of the shrinkage processes. This is a valuable argument as it moves away from simplistic one size fits all analysis and policy advise for shrinkage. They emphasise that urban trends don’t...
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Essay: Creative cities and shrinking cities: false opposites?
'Urban Europe: Fifty Tales of the City' is a collection of fifty essays in which various topics related to European urban development are tackled. Different academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences are represented. Moreover,...
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Heritage amid an urban crisis: Historic preservation in Cleveland, Ohio's Slavic Village neighborhood
It is clear that shrinking cities struggle with many problems: vacancy, poverty, bad image, etc. At the same time many shrinking cities have rich heritage and historic fabric that can support revitalisation. In this respect heritage is recognised as...
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Residents' preferred policy actions for shrinking cities
Citizens participation in policy making is widely recognized as relevant. One can argue that in shrinking cities there is even more need for innovative urban regeneration policies involving citizens due to the pressures shrinking imposes on the...
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The role of responses to experiences of rural population decline in the social capital of families
This article* pays attention to an often forgotten topic in the shrinkage discourse: inhabitants’ experiences of population decline. By making a direct link between population decline and social capital of individuals and communities, the authors,...
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A Shrinking Society. Post-Demographic Transition in Japan
By Toshihiko Hara. Springer, 2015. Shrinking and ageing population is a new phenomenon emerging in the twenty-first century. Many well-developed countries are faced with this developments. In this respect, Japan is often mentioned as a textbook...
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Spatial differentiation of population development in a declining region: the case of Saarland
Population decline has been studied comprehensively by academics around the world. We know a lot about the causes of population decline. Deindustrialization and low fertility are reality for many European regions. But how come, in the same region,...
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Urban Triage, City Systems, and the Remnants of Community
It is often assumed: in order to solve their problems shrinking cities need to downsize. For example, Detroit should be smaller and greener (DFC - Detroit Future City Plan). However, this also means that city’s most abandoned and deteriorated...
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Managing Population Decline in Europe's Urban and Rural Areas
There is no way around demographic change: the future of many developed countries is characterized by shrinking and ageing population. This development implies many challenges for Europe’s urban and rural areas. Demographic change is getting on...
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