This opinion paper discusses urban lawns, the most common part of open green spaces and
urban green infrastructures. It highlights both the ecosystem services and also disservices …

Current debates in urban development display a rising awareness that several cities in
Europe and the US must deal with challenges of long-term urban shrinkage. However, on an …

This article questions the strict parallelism of demographic and economic development in
characterising urban shrinkage in Germany. As the cases of several Ruhr cities and East …

In the final decades of the twentieth century, the post‐industrial regions of western Europe
and the US were hot‐spots of urban shrinkage, and this also affected large areas in post …

An increasing number of cities and towns in Europe are facing population decline. In this
article we focus on the challenges of this urban shrinkage process from a policy perspective …

This paper presents a general introduction to the role that landscape as a concept, and
landscape architecture as a discipline, can have in the academic discussion on Shrinking …

Urban shrinkage in the European Union (EU) can be understood as a local manifestation of
the interplay of one or more economic, spatial, demographic, and political forces. A first …

Co-production often appears as a virtue in academic research and planning practice,
particularly in shrinking cities, which struggle to develop effective policies and provide …

This monograph draws on results of two international research projects, in which the authors
participated in 2008–2011. The main research projects title is “The governance of shrinkage …

A characteristic element of the transformations of cities in Central and Eastern Europe after
1990 was the emergence of shrinking cities. The main problem related to shrinking cities is …