Resource-based cities play a crucial role in China's economic development. However, they
are faced with the challenge of urban shrinkage due to the slowdown of economic growth in …

Improving urban economic resilience is crucial for achieving urban economic growth and
sustainable development. However, population shrinkage is not conducive to improving …

Recently, an international debate on urban shrinkage has brought together national strands
of research on those cities that have experienced considerable population loss over a …

More and more European cities are confronted with population decline in a structural sense.
This development of “urban shrinkage” has different causes, but similar effects: the city's …

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 …

Extant literature identifies cities with continuous population loss, massive housing vacancy,
and under-use of urban infrastructure as shrinking cities. Meanwhile, we found that some …

In many countries, social and economic disparities between regions appear to be on the
rise, with the increasing demand for urban living mirrored by the decline of more peripheral …

Resource-based economies often face the challenge of resource depletion and population
shrinkage. After reaching a production peak, cities confront slower economic development …

In Europe, urban shrinkage has emerged as a prominent and concerning phenomenon. It is
affecting an increasingly large number of cities, particularly small and medium-sized ones …

Shrinkage since the collapse of state socialism has been evident in many Russian cities,
especially in small and medium-sized (SMS) ones. The Russian state, de jure, has been …