Shrinking Cities
A Global Perspective
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Word Count
84,000 words, Guess
Page Count
336 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-100415643953
- ISBN-139780415643955
- Library of Congress Control Number2013027211
- OCLC Control Number854285696
- OCLC Control Number878140732
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780415643955
- Open LibraryOL27552326M
Classifications
- LCCHT371
- LCCHT371 .S464 2014
- LCCHT371 .S464 2014eb
Description
This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much coverage is given to declining fertility rates, ageing populations and economic restructuring as the factors behind shrinking cities, but there is also reference to resource depletion, the demise of single-company towns and the micro-location of environmental hazards.The contributions show that shrinkage can occur at any scale ' from neighbourhood to macro-region - and they consider whether shrinkage of metropolitan areas as a.
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