Annual RC21 Conference 2011

The struggle to belong. Dealing with diversity in 21st century urban settings
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), July 7-9 2011

Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research – Urban Studies
University of Amsterdam – The Netherlands

25. Changing urban geographies of growth and decline

Organizers: Matthias Bernt & Marco Bontje

25.1 CHANGING URBAN GEOGRAPHIES OF GROWTH AND DECLINE

Chair: Marco Bontje.

Robert Beauregard (Columbia University)
Spaces of Shrinkage: United States, 1950-2000

Hideo Nakazawa (Chuo University, Tokyo)
Aged Newtown Problems on Greater Tokyo Outskirts: How Can Policymakers and Movements Cope with the Compressed Cycle of Urban Growth and Decline

Gert-Jan Hospers (University of Twente)
Myrdal, the Matthew effect and beyond: in search of a theory of urban shrinkage

Annegret Haase et. Al. (Centre for Environmental Research, Germany)
"Systematizing the debate on urban shrinkage in Europe – reducing the chaos and maintaining the complexity"

RT25.1 CHANGING URBAN GEOGRAPHIES OF GROWTH AND DECLINE

Chair: Mattias Bernt.

Chris Couch et al. (Centre for Environmental Research, Germany)
From long-term shrinkage to re-growth? A comparative study of Liverpool and Leipzig

Jason Hackworth (Toronto University)
Financial predation in declining American cities

Manfred Kühn (Leibniz-Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning )
Peripheralisation and decline of cities

Maxim Kudryashov (St. Petersburg State University )
Ghost towns: Frames of perception and strategies of re-inclusion

Distributed papers

Alberto Violante (University of Rome)
Wealth, Modernization and Shrinkage.

Nina Gribat (Sheffield Hallam University)
Critical reflections on the emergence of shrinking cities in Germany

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