Shrinking Cities: International Perspectives and Policy Implications (Routledge Advances in Geography) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138952877 ISBN 13: 9781138952874

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138952877
• ISBN 13: 9781138952874
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Pallagst Karina, Wiechmann Thorsten, Martinez-Fernandez Cristina