The proliferation of case studies of shrinking cities in recent years has stimulated intense
debate on the impacts of urban shrinkage. However, assessing the impacts of urban …

High inventory is a common issue in urban real estate markets in many countries, posing a
threat to the sustainable development of macroeconomics and society. This study built an …

Throughout the 20th century, housing movements in Atlanta were anchored by public
housing tenant associations and a politics that materially and spatially addressed …

Many studies have attempted to categorize growing and shrinking cities primarily through
population and economic indicators. However, previous approaches may have …

Urban shrinkage has attracted the attention of many geographers and urban planners in
recent years. However, there are fewer studies on vacant housing in shrinking cities …

Employing parcel-level data on vacant houses in a depopulating city in the Tokyo
metropolitan area, we provide the evidence of negative externalities of long-term vacant …

We examine neighborhood housing vacancy patterns in the largest 200 metropolitan areas
from 2012 to 2019, focusing especially on Sunbelt and Rustbelt metros, both hit hard by the …

The academic reflection on different manifestations of building emptiness is broad,
intersecting the last sixty years of various debates on urban issues. Despite this, the …

As the population is shrinking in many municipalities in Japan, one of its effects is the vacant
house crisis. The rise of empty houses profoundly affects the city's society and economy, eg …

There is much debate today over the problem of unused buildings. This debate is often
conducted in alarmed and concerned tones. Our idea is that it is indispensable to reconsider …