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The future of shrinking cities : Problems, patterns and strategies of urban transformation

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The future of shrinking cities : Problems, patterns and strategies of urban transformation

Sujet

, décroissance, ville en déclin, planification, mutation urbaine, politique urbaine, aménagement urbain

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Full title : The future of shrinking cities : Problems, patterns and strategies of urban transformation in a global context
 
Abstract from the publisher :
 
This publication is the outcome of a symposium held at UC Berkeley in February 2007, organized by the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, UC Berkeley. It brought together urban and regional planners, architects, engineers, developers, artists, and academics to examine the perspectives of a largely underrepresented topic: shrinking cities.

The Future of Shrinking Cities: Problems, Patterns, and Strategies of Urban Transformation in a Global Context presents research carried out under the aegis of the Shrinking Cities International Research Network (SCiRN) and – in addition – selected case studies from the United States. The purpose of the publication is to encourage and inform discussion to improve the quality of life in shrinking cities. The authors identify and examine critical projects and issues in shrinking cities and present lessons learned from relevant projects and experiences in the US and abroad. The comparative approach to shrinking cities, incorporating a wide range of case studies in order to widen the debate, is both unique and innovative.

The shrinking city phenomenon is a multidimensional process, comprising cities, parts of cities, or entire metropolitan areas that have experienced dramatic decline in their economic and social bases. Thus, urban shrinkage is often a challenge on the wide scale of metropolitan regions and requires policy-makers to redefine traditional paths of regional governance. Urban decline and the loss of employment opportunities are closely linked in a downward spiral, leading to an out-migration of population.

The joint work places shrinking cities in a global perspective, setting the context for in-depth comparisons of selected cities considering specific social, economic, environmental, cultural, and land-use issues. Especially in the United States, planning practice is to a large extent concentrated on either managing urban growth or tackling redevelopment in a fragmented – not a regional – way, despite the fact that in many metropolitan regions urban shrinkage reaches beyond individual cities. In this regard, the papers will help initiate a redefinition of regional governance in the U.S. and also in the other participating countries via comparative research on shrinking cities.
 
Contents :   Introduction - Karina Pallagst and Jasmin Aber

I What are the Problems of Shrinking Cities? Lessons Learned from an International Comparison :
Thorsten Wiechmann - Conversion Strategies under Uncertainty in Post-Socialist Shrinking Cities: The Example of Dresden in Eastern Germany
Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot and Sylvie Fol - Shrinking Cities in France and Great Britain: A Silent Process?
Cristina Martinez-Fernandez and Chung-Tong Wu - Shrinking Cities: A Global Overview and Concerns about Australian Mining Cities Cases
Hans Harms - Changes on the Waterfront - Transforming Harbor Areas
Sergio Moraes - Inequality and Urban Shrinkage - a Close Relationship in Latin America

II Kicking Off the Shrinking Cities Debate in North America :
Robert Beauregard - Shrinking Cities in the United States in Historical Perspective: A Research Note
Ivonne Audirac - Urban Shrinkage and Fast Metropolitan Growth (Two Faces of Contemporary
Urbanism)
Karina Pallagst - Shrinking Cities in the United States of America: Three Cases, Three Planning Stories
David Leadbeater - Single-industry Resource Communities, “Shrinking,” and the New Crisis of
Hinterland Economic Development

III Creative Approaches of Revitalizing Shrinking Cities :
Helen Mulligan - Environmental Policy Action: Comparative Importance in Differing Categories of Shrinking City
Jasmin Aber - The Creative Imperative in a Postindustrial Economy to Foster a More Sustainable Development in Shrinking Cities
Jose Vargas - Cerro de San Pedro: Grassroots Movements in Cooperation and Conflict to Stop a Living Community from Disappearing

IV Planning and Policy-Making for Shrinking Cities :
Rollin Stanley - e = m c2 The Relative City
Teresa Gillotti and Daniel Kildee - Land Banks as Revitalization Tools: The Example of Genesee County and the City of Flint, Michigan
Joseph Schilling - Blueprint Buffalo—Using Green Infrastructure to Reclaim America’s Shrinking Cities
Gabi Troeger-Weiß and Hans-Jörg Domhardt - Germany’s Shrinkage on a Small Town Scale  

Créateur

Multiple authors

Éditeur

Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD), UC Berkeley

Date

5 November 2009

Format


168

Type

Autre

Identifiant

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7zz6s7bm