Abandonment, ecological assembly and public health risks in counter-urbanizing cities

A Gulachenski, BM Ghersi, AE Lesen, MJ Blum - Sustainability, 2016 - mdpi.com
Urban landscapes can be transformed by widespread abandonment from population and
economic decline. Ecological assembly, sometimes referred to as “greening”, following …

Prefecture-level city shrinkage on the regional dimension in China: Spatiotemporal change and internal relations

Y Zhang, Y Fu, X Kong, F Zhang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2019 - Elsevier
City shrinkage characterized by population loss is a difficult issue challenging urban
planning and regional development policy. China has been experiencing rapid urbanization …

Determining the association of the built environment and socioeconomic attributes with urban shrinking in Yokohama City

S Ma, Y Kumakoshi, H Koizumi, Y Yoshimura - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban shrinking means a densely populated urban area or city where is experiencing a
significant population loss. Currently studies have examined the relationship between built …

Critiques of the shrinking cities literature from an urban political economy framework

L Berglund - Journal of Planning Literature, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article outlines the political economy critiques of the shrinking cities literature by
answering the following:(1) how does the “shrinking cities” canon define a categorically …

Spatial sustainable development assessment using fusing multisource data from the perspective of production-Living-Ecological space division: a case of greater bay …

K Gao, X Yang, Z Wang, H Zhang, C Huang, X Zeng - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal SDG11. 3.1—the ratio of land consumption
rate (LCR) to population growth rate (PGR)(LCRPGR)—aims to measure the efficiency and …

Spatiotemporal evolution of county-level land use structure in the context of urban shrinkage: Evidence from Northeast China

W Li, H Li, S Wang, Z Feng - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Shrinking cities are a class of cities that show different trajectories in the urbanization
process. Although many studies have examined shrinking cities from multi-dimensional …

Must shrinking cities be distressed cities? A historical and conceptual critique

S Hirt, R Beauregard - International Planning Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Regardless of the fast-growing popularity of shrinking cities in the literature, certain
misconceptions persist. Urban shrinkage is often assumed to be near-synonymous with …

The shrinking city as a growth machine: Detroit's reinvention of growth through triage, foundation work and talent attraction

L Berglund - International journal of urban and regional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite Detroit's reputation for social and financial crisis, developers and investors have
successfully pursued growth and land‐use intensification in recent years. However, in …

Shrinking suburbs: Analyzing the decline of American suburban spaces

A Sarzynski, TJ Vicino - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Recent popular and scholarly work has drawn attention to the issue of shrinking cities. In
particular, a growing body of literature has focused on the impacts of population loss on …

Maps and meanings: urban cartography and urban design.

JC Nichols - 2013 - hekyll.services.adelaide.edu.au
In today's practices of urban design, the map acts as a documentary and design tool as well
as a legal document. Its usefulness hinges on its perceived truthfulness and objectivity in the …