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Handbook on Shrinking Cities
Handbook on Shrinking Cities
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This Handbook on Shrinking Cities explores the fundamentals of shrinkage, its causes, planning strategies, and innovative solutions for revitalizing shrinking cities. It analyzes the multidimensional phenomena involved in processes of shrinkage and offers insights from top scholars on addressing challenges in the age of COVID-19 and beyond. The Handbook proposes strategies for dealing with shrinkage, focusing on economic prosperity, liveability, social stability, and innovation, representing a shift from growth-centred planning to sustainable shrinking.
Format: Hardback
Length: 470 pages
Publication date: 18 October 2022
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Compelling and engaging, this Handbook on Shrinking Cities delves into the fundamental aspects of shrinkage, exploring its underlying causes, the guiding principles of planning strategies and policies, and innovative solutions for revitalizing shrinking cities. It provides a timely response to the persistent decline observed in cities worldwide, featuring contributions from esteemed scholars offering diverse perspectives on the ongoing challenges of shrinkage. The Handbook encompasses chapters on governance, greening, right-sizing, and regrowth, laying the foundation for its proposals to address shrinkage in the context of COVID-19 and beyond. Leading experts in urban and regional development contribute novel ideas relevant to the future of shrinking cities, considering factors such as economic prosperity, livability, social stability, and innovation. This Handbook represents a paradigmatic shift from growth-centred planning to the notion of 'shrinking sustainably,' offering strategies to reverse decline and foster newer, more robust development.
This prescient Handbook is of immense value to scholars of human geography and urban planning, as well as planning practitioners. The comprehensive range of case studies makes it an essential read for those seeking to understand the complexities of shrinking cities and develop effective strategies for their revitalization.
Dimension: 244 x 169 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781839107030
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