Shrinking cities : a global perspective /
This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much coverage is given to declining fertility rates, ageing populations and economic restructuring as the factors behind shrinking cities, but there is also reference to resource depletion, th...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Series: | Regions and cities ;
71. |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Shrinking cities : |b a global perspective / |c edited by Harry W. Richardson and Chang Woon Nam. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Abingdon, Oxon ; |a New York : |b Routledge, |c 2014. | |
| 300 | |a xix, 331 pages ; |c 24 cm. | ||
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| 490 | 1 | |a Regions and cities ; |v 71 | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a International shrinking cities: analysis, classification and prospects / Wendell Cox -- Shrinking cities in Latin America: an oxymoron? / Ivonne Audirac -- Urban shrinkage in the EU / Gert-Jan Hospers -- Shrinking cities: the United States / Richard Morrill -- The landscape of population decline in the United States: considering the roles of the demographic components of change and geography / Rachel S. Franklin -- Are large German cities really shrinking? Demographic and economic development in recent years / Florian Bartholomae and Chang Woon Nam -- Urban shrinkage in Romania: scope and determinants / Alina M. Schoenberg and Daniela Luminita Constantin -- Shrinking cities and processes in Estonia / Peter Friedrich, Aivo Ülper and Kadri Ukrainski -- Shrinking cities in South Korea: the future / Harry W. Richardson and Chang-Hee Christine Bae -- When growth grinds to a halt: population and economic development of resource-depleted cities in China / Sylvia Y. He -- The paradox of shrinking cities in India / Sukumar Ganapati -- Are cities in Taiwan shrinking? / Michael Cheng-Yi Lin -- Driving shrinking Detroit / George Galster -- Planning for regional depopulation in Greater Buffalo / Justin Hollander and Bernard Cahill -- Innovation and shrinking cities: what can we learn from Cleveland's regional innovation system? / Michael S. Fogarty and Gasper A. Garofalo -- Halle: a shrinking city in Eastern Germany / Florian Bartholomae and Chang Woon Nam -- The urban area of Naples: from shrinking city to the metropolitan area / Gerardo Schettino -- Losing households in a house divided: the case of Belfast / Frank Gaffikin and Ken Sterrett -- Compact development as a factor in income resilience among shrinking counties in the United States: statistical analysis with policy implications / Arthur C. Nelson, Susan Petheram, Reid Ewing, Philip Stoker and Shima Hamidi -- Environmental impacts of shrinking cities / Tilman Rave. | |
| 520 | 8 | |a This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much coverage is given to declining fertility rates, ageing populations and economic restructuring as the factors behind shrinking cities, but there is also reference to resource depletion, the demise of single-company towns and the micro-location of environmental hazards.The contributions show that shrinkage can occur at any scale ' from neighbourhood to macro-region - and they consider whether shrinkage of metropolitan areas as a. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Shrinking cities. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Cities and towns |x Growth. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Urban policy. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Nam, Chang Woon, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Nam, Ch. W., |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Richardson, Harry Ward, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Richardson, Harry Ward, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Nam, Ch. W., |e editor. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Regions and cities ; |v 71. | |
| 899 | |a 235_439319 | ||
| 988 | |a 20140519 | ||
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