Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives
- by John Eade, Christopher Mele
- Published in: Adobe E-book
Abstract Recent anxieties about the viability of critical and radical...
Abstract Recent discussions of urban governance have emphasized a trend...
Abstract Urban shrinkage is not a new phenomenon. It has been documented in a large literature analyzing the social and economic issues that have led to population flight, resulting, in the worse cases, in the eventual abandonment of blocks of housing and neighbourhoods. Analysis of urban shrinkage should take into account the new realization that this phenomenon is now global and multidimensional — but also...

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