Shrinking cites – international perspectives and policy implications

Published by Routledge

Will be presented in July at the joint AESOP/ACSP congress, Dublin

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Table of contents

FOREWORD

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 2. URBAN CHANGE AND THE ROLE OF SHRINKAG

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

List of tables and figures

Index

List of Authors

Authors

Departamento de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

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Dr. Helen Mulligan

Cambridge Architectural Research Limited, United Kingdom

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Prof. Karina Pallagst
Department International Planning Systems , Faculty of Spatial and Environmental Planning, Kaiserslautern University , Germany
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Prof. Hélène Roth

University of Clermont – Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France

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Dr. Laura Schatz

School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia

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M.Sc. Geogr. Sandra Schmitz
Faculty of Spatial Planning, Dortmund University , Germany

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Dr. Dong-Chin Shin

Korean Railway Association, Republic of Korea

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Prof. José G. Vargas-Hernández
Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico Administrativas, Universidad de Guadalajara, México
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Dipl.-Ing. Anne Volkmann

Faculty of Spatial Planning, Dortmund University, Germany

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Dr. Tamara Weyman

University of Western Sydney, Australia

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Prof. Thorsten Wiechmann

Faculty of Spatial Planning, Dortmund University, Germany

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Prof. Emeritus Chung-Tong Wu

University of Western Sydney, Australia

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Prof. Hiroshi Yahagi
Faculty of Policy Science, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan
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Prof. Xiao-Lin Zhang

Institute of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, China

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Bios

Prof. Dr. Karina Pallagst

Karina Pallagst is professor for International Planning Systems at Kaiserslautern University’s faculty of Spatial Planning. Previously she worked at UC Berkeley’s center for Global Metropolitan Studies (GMS) and the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) as the Program Director of the Shrinking Cities International Research Group. Prior to this appointment she was a senior research specialist at the Dresden-based Institute of Ecological and Regional Development (IOER). Prof. Pallagst holds a PhD from Kaiserslautern University and a post-doctoral degree from Dresden Technical University. Her research focuses on international comparative urban development, shrinking cities, urban growth, planning cultures, and planning theory. She serves on numerous think tanks, working groups and committees regarding spatial planning and international urban development. She is also a co-founder of the Shrinking Cities International Research Network (SCiRN).

Sylvie Folis a Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne. She holds a PhD in Urban Studies from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). Her research focuses on the manifestations and effects of socio-spatial inequalities and analyses the strategies that are put in place to tackle social exclusion and segregation. Sylvie’s research aims at understanding the effects of globalization and metropolization processes on the socio-spatial evolution of the Paris’ suburbs, which have been strongly affected by urban decline and constitute an interesting example of “Shrinking Cities”. Sylvie is a member of the managing board of the “Shrinking Cities International Research Network”. She is now vice-chair of the European Program COST “Cities Regrowing Smaller”.

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