Shrinking Cities : International Perspectives and Policy Implications (Paperback)

Section I: Shrinkage in a Global Perspective  1. Introduction  Karina Pallagst, Cristina Martinez-Fernandez and Thorsten Wiechmann  2. Theoretical Approaches of "Shrinking Cities"  Emmanuele Cunningham-Sabot, Ivonne Audirac, Sylvie Fol and Cristina Martinez-Fernandez  Section II: Urban Change and the Role of Shrinkage  3. Shrinking Cities in the United States in Historical Perspective: A Research Note  Robert A. Beauregard  4. Shrinking Cities in the Fourth Urban Revolution?  Ivonne Audirac  5. The Interdependence of Shrinking and Growing: Processes of Urban Transformation in the USA in the Rust Belt and Beyond  Karina Pallagst  6. The Restructuring of Declining Suburbs in the Paris Region  Marie-Fleur Albecker and Sylvie Fol  7. Growth Paradigm Against Urban Shrinkage: A Standardised Fight? The Cases of Glasgow (UK) and Saint-Etienne (France)  Emmanuele Cunningham-Sabot and Helene Roth  8. Making Places in Increasingly Empty Spaces: Dealing With Shrinkage in Post-Socialist Cities: The Example of East Germany  Thorsten Wiechmann, Anne Volkmann and Sandra Schmitz  9. The Nagasaki Model of Community-Governance: Grassroots Partnership with Local Government  Hiroshi Yahagi  10. Shrinkage and Expansion in Peri-Urban China: Exploratory Case Study from Jiangsu Province  Chung-Tong Wu, Xiao-Lin Zhang, Gong-Hao Cui and Shu-Ping Cui  11. A Cluster of the Four Coal Mining Cities in Korea from a Global Perspective: How Did the People Overcome a Crisis After a Massive Closure of Mines?  Dong-Chun Shin  12. From "Up North" to "Down Under": Dynamics of Shrinkage in Mining Communities in Canada and Australia  Laura Schatz, David Leadbeater, Cristina Martinez-Fernandez and Tamara Weyman  13. Analytic Implications of the Corporate Town Atenquique and Its Shrinkage, Economic and Environmental Decline  Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez  14. Inequality and Urban Shrinkage: A Close Relationship in Brazil  Sergio Torres Moraes  Section III: Strategic and Policy Implications  15. Emerging Regeneration Strategies in the US, Europe and Japan  Jasmin Aber and Hiroshi Yahagi  16. Environmental Sustainability Issues for Shrinking Cities: US and Europe  Helen Mulligan  17. Closing Thoughts  Cristina Martinez-Fernandez, Karina Pallagst and Thorsten Wiechmann