Shrinking Cities, Shrinking World: Urban Design for an Emerging era of Global Population Decline
During the mid-to-late 20th century, economic and social forces caused population decline in the deindustrializing, “shrinking” cities of many developed nations, particularly in the United States, northern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. Urban designers struggled with varying degrees of succ...
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| description | During the mid-to-late 20th century, economic and social forces caused population decline in the
deindustrializing, “shrinking” cities of many developed nations, particularly in the United States,
northern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. Urban designers struggled with varying degrees of
success to confront problematic conditions like housing abandonment, vacant land, and disused
factories. Germany, with abundant state funding and a design-oriented culture, achieved the
greatest success in instituting comprehensive design strategies for its shrinking cities. Today,
shrinking cities are growing in number as demographic decline resulting from income growth
drives population loss in northern Europe and the former Soviet Union as well as in Japan, China,
Korea, Singapore, and Mediterranean Europe. Nascent urban design strategies include compact city
strategies in Japan and state-led housing consolidation in China. As demographic decline spreads
elsewhere in an increasingly shrinking world, novel urban design strategies will be required for an
ever more diverse range of urban built environments. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1556582024-12-23T06:11:56Z Shrinking Cities, Shrinking World: Urban Design for an Emerging era of Global Population Decline Ryan, Brent D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning During the mid-to-late 20th century, economic and social forces caused population decline in the deindustrializing, “shrinking” cities of many developed nations, particularly in the United States, northern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. Urban designers struggled with varying degrees of success to confront problematic conditions like housing abandonment, vacant land, and disused factories. Germany, with abundant state funding and a design-oriented culture, achieved the greatest success in instituting comprehensive design strategies for its shrinking cities. Today, shrinking cities are growing in number as demographic decline resulting from income growth drives population loss in northern Europe and the former Soviet Union as well as in Japan, China, Korea, Singapore, and Mediterranean Europe. Nascent urban design strategies include compact city strategies in Japan and state-led housing consolidation in China. As demographic decline spreads elsewhere in an increasingly shrinking world, novel urban design strategies will be required for an ever more diverse range of urban built environments. 2024-07-11T16:41:53Z 2024-07-11T16:41:53Z 2019-06-19 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookItem 9780203731932 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155658 Banerjee, T., & Loukaitou-Sideris, A. (Eds.). (2019). The New Companion to Urban Design (1st ed.). Routledge. en_US 10.4324/9780203731932 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Routledge Author |
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