This article reviews existing literature on spatial metrics, presenting a portfolio of metrics
addressing the spatial patterns of growing and shrinking cities and discussing their potential …

This is the second of two special issues in Progress in Planning exploring emerging
research agendas in planning. It brings together scholars from diverse schools working on …

Despite the fact that China is becoming increasingly urbanised, some Chinese cities have
witnessed a loss of urban population. In recent years, with the extensive expansion of the …

Developed, modern cities throughout the world are facing population declines at an
unprecedented scale. Over the last fifty years, 370 cities throughout the world with …

Economic decline has led to a new wave of population decline throughout the US, meaning
more and more cities are shrinking. Growing interest in using smart decline principles to …

Rural depopulation is rapidly becoming a worldwide phenomenon, affecting both developed
and developing countries, such as China, alike. China's rural population has been on an …

Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a
contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the United States. The book …

A number of US cities, former manufacturing centers of the Northeast and Midwest, have
suffered such dramatic losses in population and employment that urban experts have put …

Depopulation, commonly labelled as shrinkage, of rural areas can lead to a self-reinforcing
vicious cycle of decreased regional vitality. However, some regions have been able to adapt …

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 …