Parallel Patterns of Shrinking Cities and Urban Growth: Spatial Planning for Sustainable Development of City Regions and Rural Areas

by Robin Ganser, Rocky Piro, Donald Miller, Nicole Gurran

Overview

Focussing particularly on urban fringe and rural areas, this book addresses the parallel phenomena of growth and decline. In doing so, it not only broadens a debate which generally concentrates on urban municipalities, especially inner city areas, but also covers new ground by starting to build a new theoretical framework for the spatial planning related assessment of these phenomena.

Bringing together contributions from internationally renowned authors, such as Sir Peter Hall, Steve Ward and Johann Jessen, the book compares international case studies and highlights their relationships with one another. It concludes by emphasizing common themes that are addressed, as well as showing applicability to other urban and rural regions.

Overall, the book provides a timely and comprehensive analysis of the spatial consequences and related spatial planning concepts in theory and practice which aim to further sustainable development of city regions, urban fringe and rural areas experiencing growth and decline.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472404381
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	01/28/2013
Series:	Urban Planning and Environment
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	22 MB
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About the Author

Stephen V. Ward, Peter Hall, Johann Jessen, Hélène Roth, Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot, Lea Holst Laursen, Christian Strauβ, Anja Kübler, Barbara Warner, Stefan Fina, Simone Planinsek, Philipp Zakrzewski, Christian v. Malottki, Joachim Kirchner, Holger Cischinsky, Kiyonobu Kaido, Tsuruta Yosiko, Nicole Gurran, Barbara Norman, Elisabeth Hamin, Finbarr Brereton, J. Peter Clinch, Menelaos Gkartzios, Mark Scott, Sophie Schetke, Theo Kötter ,Dagmar Haase, Robin Ganser, Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira, Lorraine Farrelly.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; Spatial planning approaches to growth and shrinkage: a historical perspective, Stephen V. Ward; Balancing European territory: the challenges of a post-neoliberal era, Peter Hall; Conceptualizing shrinking cities - a challenge for planning theory, Johann Jessen; Shrinking cities in the growth paradigm: towards standardized regrowing strategies?, Hélène Roth and Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot; Urban transformations - the dynamic relation of urban growth and decline, Lea Holst Laursen; The importance of strategic spatial goals for the planning process under shrinkage tendencies, Christian Strauβ; Regional land use management under shrinkage tendencies in the region Halle-Leipzig, Anja Kübler, Christian Strauβ and Barbara Warner; Germany’s post-war suburbs: perspectives of the ageing housing stock, Stefan Fina, Simone Planinsek and Philipp Zakrzewski; The housing market in growing and declining regions - political implications for housing policy and urban planning, Christian v. Malottki, Joachim Kirchner and Holger Cischinsky; Sustainable suburbia through the perspective of lower density and shrinkage: the case study of the Nagoya metropolitan region in Japan, Kiyonobu Kaido and Tsuruta Yosiko; Population growth and change in non-metropolitan coastal Australia, Nicole Gurran, Barbara Norman and Elisabeth Hamin; Counterurbanisation and subjective well-being, Finbarr Brereton, J. Peter Clinch, Menelaos Gkartzios and Mark Scott; Socio-environmental impacts of new housing developments at infill and greenfield sites - methodical design for a multicriteria assessment, Sophie Schetke, Theo Kötter and Dagmar Haase; Redeveloping the redundant defence estate in regions of growth and decline - challenges for spatial planning, Robin Ganser; The regeneration of a naval city: Portsmouth, Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira and Lorraine Farrelly; Conclusions: spatial planning for the dichotomy of growth and shrinkage; Index.

Editorial Reviews

'... this volume is a useful contribution to the growing literature on urban decline and will be of particular interest to planners and others looking for an introduction to the subject.' Journal of Regional Science

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