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1 Shrinking Cities- International Perspectives and Policy Implications Edited by: Karina Pallagst, Thorsten Wiechmann, and Cristina Martinez Fernandez Routledge Publishers Table of contents FOREWORD SECTION I. SHRINKAGE IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 1. Introduction Karina Pallagst, Cristina Martinez-Fernandez and Thorsten Wiechmann 2. Theoretical approaches of "shrinking cities" Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot, Ivonne Audirac, Sylvie Fol and Cristina Martinez- Fernandez SECTION 2. 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 1

2 Marie-Fleur Albecker and Sylvie Fol 7. Growth paradigm against urban shrinkage: a standardized fight? The cases of Glasgow (UK) and Saint-Etienne (France) Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot and Hélène 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 José G. Vargas-Hernández 2

3 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 LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES INDEX LIST OF AUTHORS ADDRESSES Msc. Jasmin Aber Washington University, USA ja@creativeexchangelab.org Msc. Marie-Fleur Albecker University Paris 1 Sorbonne, France mf_albecker@yahoo.fr 3

4 Prof. Ivonne Audirac University of Texas Arlington, USA Prof. Robert A. Beauregard Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, USA Prof. Gong-Hao Cui Institute of City Planning, Nanjing University, China Dr. Shu-Ping Cui Director of No. 2 Research Office, Jiangsu Province Urban Development Institute, China Cuwei1498@hotmail.com Prof. Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot University of Rennes 2, France emmanuele.sabot@univ-rennes2.fr Prof. Sylvie Fol University Paris 1 Sorbonne, France sfol@univ-paris1.fr Dr. David Leadbeater Department of Economics, Laurentian University, Canada dleadbeater@laurentian.ca Dr. Cristina Martinez-Fernandez OECD, Paris,France c.martinez@uws.edu.au 4

5 Prof. Dr. Sergio Torres Moraes Departamento de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil sergiomoraes@arq.ufsc.br Dr. Helen Mulligan Cambridge Architectural Research Limited, United Kingdom helen.mulligan@carltd.com Prof. Karina Pallagst Department International Planning Systems, Faculty of Spatial and Environmental Planning, Kaiserslautern University, Germany karina.pallagst@ru.uni-kl.de Prof. Hélène Roth University of Clermont Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France Helene.Roth@univ-bpclermont.fr Dr. Laura Schatz School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia L.Schatz@uws.edu.au M.Sc. Geogr. Sandra Schmitz Faculty of Spatial Planning, Dortmund University, Germany sandra2.schmitz@tu-dortmund.de Dr. Dong-Chin Shin Korean Railway Association, Republic of Korea 5

6 Prof. José G. Vargas-Hernández Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico Administrativas, Universidad de Guadalajara, México Dipl.-Ing. Anne Volkmann Faculty of Spatial Planning, Dortmund University, Germany Dr. Tamara Weyman University of Western Sydney, Australia Prof. Thorsten Wiechmann Faculty of Spatial Planning, Dortmund University, Germany Prof. Emeritus Chung-Tong Wu University of Western Sydney, Australia Prof. Hiroshi Yahagi Faculty of Policy Science, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan Prof. Xiao-Lin Zhang Institute of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, China 6

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