Remote sensing has evolved to become a key tool for various fields of environmental
analysis, thus actively informing policy across areas and domains. To evaluate the degree to …

Population ageing and shrinking are demographic phenomena with far-reaching
implications for sustainability in the current context of extensive and rapid urbanization. This …

This book tells the story of visionary urban experiments, shedding light on the theories that
preceded their development and on the monsters that followed and might be the end of our …

Empirical research on urban shrinkage is being conducted around the globe, since many
countries are confronted with the phenomenon of shrinking cities. So far, the research on …

Will the COVID-19 pandemic interrupt the recent European urbanization trends–and if so–
what is the magnitude of this sudden shock, and how deaths, births, and net migration …

Urban development if not planned and managed adequately can be unsustainable. Urban
growth models have been a powerful toolkit to help tackling this challenge. In this paper, we …

The scientific recognition of urban shrinkage patterns and their impacts is crucial for urban
economic development and building harmonious relationships between people and the …

This paper undertakes a comparison of two regrowing and two shrinking European cities in
order to identify the factors driving demographic regrowth and economic recovery of cities …

Mixing peculiar socioeconomic conditions and demographic contexts, urban decline in
Mediterranean Europe was less extensively documented than in other regions of the …

This research examines the spatial transformations of postsocialist cities in the context of the
polarized national urban system. Focusing on two different periods (1990–2000 and 2000 …