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来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.40,Issue2SI,P.165-173

语言

英文

关键字

Shrinking cities; urban political economy; rightsizing; comparative research; neoliberal urbanism; SHRINKING CITIES; URBAN; DEMOLITION; CLEVELAND; ECOLOGY; CITY; MAPS

作者单位

[Aalbers, Manuel B.] Univ Leuven, Div Geog & Tourism, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E Bus 2409, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium. [Bernt, Matthias] Leibniz Inst Res Soc & Space, Erkner, Germany. Aalbers, MB (reprint author), Univ Leuven, Div Geog & Tourism, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E Bus 2409, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium. E-Mail: manuel.aalbers@kuleuven.be

摘要

While population losses have accompanied urban development since the emergence of the first cities, it has only been quite recently that "shrinkage" has become a field of research in its own rights. Critical scholarly research stands in a somewhat difficult relation to this situation. On the one hand, there are numerous contributions calling for a general "acceptance" of shrinkage and more "openness" towards planning for a reduced population size. On the other hand, one can find contributions that criticize the limits of existing rightsizing policies, describing smart shrinkage as an exclusionary project, or set it into a context of the current austerity moment. The evaluation of this new round of urban policies is thus controversial. The common denominator of the papers in this special issue is a call for both widening the perspective on rightsizing policies by embedding them into a wider context of neoliberal urbanization and a demand for more attention towards context-specific pathways, dynamics and outcomes. At the same time, we want to highlight not only the local specificities but also provide a comparative political economy perspective on shrinking cities.