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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"shrinking city"”.
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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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Submergence as emergence : expanding social waterscapes in a shrinking city
… Wisconsin, a once flourishing industrial city founded at the confluence of three rivers on the shores of Lake Michigan. The city's water network was once vital to the growth and livelihood of the city, as a port, a live blood of its vibrant industries, and for transportation and …
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The post-disaster shrinking city : vacant land types, patterns, and strategies in post-Katrina New Orleans
… to over 11 percent of total parcels in the city. Many of these lots have become vacant since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, but many were already empty. The population in parts of the older core of the city significantly declined from World War II until 2000. The migration of …
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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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Evaluating the effect an anchor institution can have on a small shrinking city : a case study of Albion College and Albion, MI
… revitalize Albion, MI, a small, post-industrial city. It evaluates the nature of the college's involvement in light of a taxonomy developed by Rita Axelroth Hodges and Steve Dubb in their book, The Road Half Traveled: University Engagement at a Crosswords. Using this taxonomy, the thesis …
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Transforming the "world factory" : designing for a [post]industrial Shenzhen
… become a spatial product rather than a living city. However, just as Western post-industrial cities have experienced, some Chinese cities are currently going through a deindustrialization process due to reasons such as rising labor costs, rising land costs and new environment laws. Shenzhen, …
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The food assembly : architecture of sustenance for the new industrial city
… future. As the quintessential post-industrial shrinking city, it faces a myriad of problems, which include: a declining tax base, urban blight, inaccessible transportation, a waning workforce, lower educational attainment, and food insecurity. Through this conglomeration of factors, the city …