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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Shrinking cities"”.
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Adaptive Reuse for Aging Populations in Shrinking Cities
Over the past two decades, cities around the globe have been faced with the challenge of supporting a rapidly growing aging population. In addition to this, many cities are simultaneously experiencing population loss, which can negatively impact the economy and result in rapidly increasing vacancy …
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Public private partnerships for economic development: impacts on shrinking cities
… the discipline of Economic Development. The cities researched are located in the Rust Belt region of the United States and their economies have experienced a drastic decline over the last half-century. This research reveals the economic impacts on these shrinking cities that have had programs …
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How do Low-Income Housing Tax Credit projects trigger revitalization in shrinking cities? A case of St. Louis, MO
… through tax credits to private investors. In shrinking cities like Detroit and St. Louis, especially, where continuous population loss has created disinvestment and abandonment, LIHTC often represents a rare opportunity to channel resources into distressed neighborhoods. Many scholars have …
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Governing the future of a shrinking city: Hoyerswerda, East Germany
The notion of ‘shrinking cities’ emerged in the context of population loss and economic decline in East Germany around the turn of the 21st century. Different practices, policies, academic research and public debates developed, which were mainly concerned with how to deal with this problem. …
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“Perennial Growth” in a Shrinking City: A Case Study of Urban Agriculture Policy and Planning in Cleveland, Ohio
<p>Shrinking cities in the United States have undergone massive physical transformations in the wake of significant population loss and economic decline. In particular, these cities are challenged by the growing presence of vacant land and the need to find new policy and planning strategies for …
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Urban agriculture as a tool for neighborhood fabric repair in post-industrial Detroit
… I began my work with an investigation of shrinking cities precedents in Leipzig and Youngstown, and urban agriculture precedents in Milwaukee, Havana, and Boston. I arrive at a set of policy and design interventions to encourage and support neighborhood repair and health. Although urban …
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Binghamton's missing teeth: a study of city-owned vacant lots in Binghamton, New York
<p>Vacant land prevails in shrinking cities that have experienced urban outmigration and economic decline. Low-income neighborhoods and blight lead to conditions where vacant lots exist, consequently producing disamenities for the residents that live near them. Considered magnets of crime and …
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IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF URBAN DECLINE ON COUPLED HUMAN AND WATER SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS
Urban decline in once vibrant cities has introduced many challenges to managing civil infrastructure. The fixed infrastructure footprint does not contract with the declining population, but remains relatively stable, resulting in underfunded and underutilized infrastructure. The focus of this …
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From subprime loans to unwanted greenspace: An urban political ecology of economic crisis in Cleveland, Ohio
… the 2007-2009 economic crisis, Rust Belt cities undertook sweeping demolition campaigns and have sought to repurpose the resulting vacant land for ecosystem services. Yet, calls to ‘green the Rust Belt’ through vacant land re-use tend to foreground its biophysical aspects along with …
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Derelict to Dynamic: Examining Socioecological Productivity of Underutilized/Abandoned Industrial Infrastructure, and Application in Baltimore, Maryland
… most economically and industrially powerful cities (Open Baltimore GIS [Vacancies Shapefile], 2017; “Harbor Water Alert” Blue Water Baltimore, 2017). Impending environmental threats in the “Anthropocene” (Crutzen, 2004) and increased attention to societal injustices warrant heightened …
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DeTROYt
An attempt to save the city of Detroit, Michigan, and its existing buildings by giving it a new meaning and future. Cars and roads are eliminated. Tiger Stadium is converted into a city-wide freight receiving and shipping facility. A system of pneumatic tubes is implemented in each neighborhood, …
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Banking on land: A critical review of land banking in the United States
… planning and development challenges in American cities, who now find themselves implicated in a role they never anticipated filling to great extent: that of landlord. As the phenomenon of a land-accumulating public sector has become more common, responsibility and deployment of policy for …