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 …

This report discusses the financialization of urban governance and the built environment as
an explicit state strategy, focusing on municipal finance and the use of financial products by …

In this article, we tell the story of a changing urban landscape through the eyes of the youth
we work with in an ongoing after-school program and community-based research project …

While population losses have accompanied urban development since the emergence of the
first cities, it has only been quite recently that “shrinkage” has become a field of research in …

In this paper, we explore what Cleveland, Ohio's program of demolishing abandoned and
foreclosed houses can teach us about the logics and politics of post-2007 austerity …

Local governments view land banks as an improvement to the municipal management of
foreclosed property. Critics contend that land banks wield too much power, concentrate …

This paper examines growth machine politics operating in shrinking cities. Instead of de-
growth politics logics emerging in shrinking cities, the paper finds, through an empirical …

In this chapter, we describe how Matthew and other high school students experienced a
youth-centered, school-based mentoring (SBM) program that positioned cultural knowledge …

This dissertation contributes to the literatures on post-2007 urban governance and urban
greening by drawing novel connections between vacant land reuse, including urban …

Ananya Roy's theorization of the urban land question in terms of 'dis/possessive
collectivism'is a powerful, eloquent intervention at a pivotal moment of intensified, planetary …