At the beginning of the 21st century, the majority of Europe's cities experienced a population
decrease. Dealing with the results of demographic, economic and physical contraction …

Since the industrialization of Europe and North America in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, traditional models of urban growth emphasized the expansion of jobs in …

This article explores the right-sizing paradigm. Currently, in the growing literature on the
right-sizing conception of planning there are not any clearly delineated strategies on what it …

At the beginning of the 21st century, most European countries see an increasingly ageing
population and internal migration from less developed to more competitive locations. Many …

Much attention is paid to the increasing number of people living in cities while a relatively
understudied but related phenomenon is silently gaining strength: that of “shrinking cities.” In …

Urban population decline has been extensively described as a triggering factor for
community segregation and fragmentation, as well as for land use vacancy and house/flat …

The right‐sizing concept in planning practice is a relatively new concept in contrast to
previous orientations of planned growth. Right‐sizing recognizes that some shrinking cities …

Planning theory and practice in the United States has been dominated by a paradigm of
growth; however, since the 1980s, many cities have faced prolonged population decline …

Shrinking of Cities in the Czech Republic and its Reflection on Society: Case Study of Karviná
City Page 1 68 Geographica Pannonica • Volume 22, Issue 1, 68–80 (March 2018) Ondřej …

1. Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid,“The 'Urban Age'in Question,” International Journal of
Urban and Regional Research 38, no. 3 (2014): 731–755; and Brendan Gleeson,“Critical …