The increase of minimally managed vacant land resulting from population loss and the
subsequent removal of infrastructure is a reoccurring feature in shrinking cities around the …

Recent years have seen a proliferation of case-study researches on shrinking cities,
stimulating intense debate on the policy responses and governance practices enacted in …

Landscape connectivity is critical for ecosystem health and biodiversity conservation, yet
urbanization is increasing habitat fragmentation. Green corridors that connect isolated …

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 …

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 …

Shrinking cities are a category of cities characterized by population loss, and the
environmental problems of these cities are often neglected. Using panel data from 2012 to …

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 …

A great number of contributions regarding shrinking cities correspond to generic discourses
on urban problems, which cover planning policies with approaches and strategies …

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 discusses the question of how urban shrinkage gets onto the agenda of public‐
policy agencies. It is based on a comparison of the agenda‐setting histories of four E …