1st Edition
Parallel Patterns of Shrinking Cities and Urban Growth Spatial Planning for Sustainable Development of City Regions and Rural Areas
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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Focussing particularly on urban fringe and rural areas, this book addresses the parallel phenomena of growth and decline. In doing so, it not only broadens a debate which generally concentrates on urban municipalities, especially inner city areas, but also covers new ground by starting to build a new theoretical framework for the spatial planning related assessment of these phenomena. Bringing... Read more
Introduction; 1: Spatial Planning Approaches to Growth and Shrinkage: A Historical Perspective; 2: Balancing European Territory. The Challenge of the Post-Neoliberal Era; 3: Conceptualizing Shrinking Cities – A Challenge for Planning Theory; 4: Shrinking Cities in the Growth Paradigm: Towards Standardised Regrowing Strategies?; 5: Urban Transformations – The Dynamic Relation of Urban Growth and Decline; 6: The Importance of Strategic Spatial Goals for the Planning Process under Shrinkage Tendencies; 7: Regional Land use Management under Shrinkage Tendencies in the Region Halle-Leipzig 1; 8: Germany's Post-War Suburbs: Perspectives of the Ageing Housing Stock; 9: The Housing Market in Growing and Declining Regions – Political Implications for Housing Policy and Urban Planning; 10: Sustainable Suburbia through the Perspective of Lower Density and Shrinkage: The Case Study of the Nagoya Metropolitan Region in Japan; 11: Population Growth and Change in Non-Metropolitan Coastal Australia; 12: Counterurbanisation and Subjective Well-Being; 13: Socio-Environmental Impacts of New Housing Development at Infill and Greenfield Sites – Methodical Design for a Multicriteria Assessment; 14: Redeveloping the Redundant Defence Estate in Regions of Growth and Decline – Challenges for Spatial Planning; 15: The Regeneration of a Naval City: Portsmouth; 16: Conclusions Spatial Planning for the Dichotomy of Growth and Shrinkage
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Rocky Piro, Robin Ganser
'... this volume is a useful contribution to the growing literature on urban decline and will be of particular interest to planners and others looking for an introduction to the subject.' Journal of Regional Science
