Growth paradigm against urban shrinkage : a standardized fight? : the cases of Glasgow (UK) and Saint-Etienne (France) / List of tables -- Foreword -- Part II. Uban change and the role of shrinkage -- Introduction / Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot and Hélène Roth -- Theoretical approaches of "shrinking cities" / Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot, Ivonne Audirac, Sylvie Fol and Cristina Martinez-Fernandez -- Part II. Uban change and the role of shrinkage -- Shrinking cities in the United States in historical perspective : a research note / Robert A. Beauregard -- Shrinking cities in the fourth urban revolution? / Ivonne Audirac -- The interdependence of shrinking and growing : processes of urban transformation in the US in the Rust Belt and beyond / Karina Pallagst -- The restructuring of declining suburbs in the Paris region / Marie-Fleur Albecker and Sylvie Fol -- Growth paradigm against urban shrinkage : a standardized fight? : the cases of Glasgow (UK) and Saint-Etienne (France) / Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot and Hélène Roth -- Analytic implications of the corporate town Atenquique and its shrinkage, economic and environmental decline / José G. Vargas-Hernández -- The Nagasaki model of community governance : grassroots partnership with local government / Hiroshi Yahagi -- 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 -- A cluster of 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 -- 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 -- Analytic implications of the corporate town Atenquique and its shrinkage, economic and environmental decline / José G. Vargas-Hernández -- Index. Cristina Martinez-Fernandez, Karina Pallagst and Thorsten Wiechmann -- Part III. Stragetic and policy implications -- Emerging regeneration strategies in the US, Europe and Japan / Jasmin Aber and Hiroshi Yahagi -- Environmental sustainability issues for shrinking cities : US and Europe / Helen Mulligan -- Closing thoughts / Cristina Martinez-Fernandez, Karina Pallagst and Thorsten Wiechmann -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary:
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. -- Publisher website.
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