Moving toward a Shared Understanding of the U.S. Shrinking City

Ganning, Joanna; Tighe, J. Rosie

doi:10.1177/0739456x18772074

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“…Severely depopulating cities have recently been referred to as 'shrinking cities (Newman et al, 2016a).' Several journal articles published between 2002 and 2014 revealed that 73 U.S. cities were identified as shrinking (Ganning and Tighe, 2015). While cities such as Cleveland and Detroit sometimes serve as the posterchilds of shrinkage, as of 2007, 370 cities throughout the world with populations over 100,000 shrunk by at least 10% over the last 50 years (Oswalt and Rieniets, 2007).…”

Section: Literature Review 21 Urban Decline and Housing Abandonmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neighborhood decline and mixed land uses: Mitigating housing abandonment in shrinking cities

Newman

Kim

et al. 2019

Land Use Policy

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Neighborhood decline is a critical issue in shrinking cities. Components of sustainable urbanism such as mixed land uses have risen as possible urban planning-based approaches to help mitigate urban and neighborhood decline. This research identifies examines if mixed land uses can help mitigate urban decline by using the tax delinquent status of single family houses as a proxy for decline in Dayton, Ohio, USA. Logistic regression models are utilized to estimate the probability of tax delinquency. The results suggest that the proximity to mixed land uses is associated with increasing or decreasing the probability of tax delinquent for single family lots. The number of commercial and industrial lots in a neighborhood also has effects on the probability of a lot becoming tax delinquent, but the specific types of commercial and industrial lots dictate the direction of effects. The existence of commercial apartment lots, retail lots, and industrial food and drink plant lots were shown to help decrease the probability of tax delinquent lots. Also, decreasing the amount of property tax applied to parcels can help to limit distress in neighborhoods. This research contributes to the ongoing efforts to stymie the amount of residential abandonment in depopulating and declining cities.

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Section: Literature Review 21 Urban Decline and Housing Abandonmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neighborhood decline and mixed land uses: Mitigating housing abandonment in shrinking cities

Newman

Kim

et al. 2019

Land Use Policy

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“…Many urban areas around the world currently experience various challenging and interdependent social, environmental, and economic sustainability problems, which vary substantially between contexts. For example, some experience rapid population increases (fueled sometimes by migration) or rapid population declines, ageing societies, urban decay, and environmental pollution [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. These contemporary urban challenges are reflected in numerous scientific studies [8][9][10], as well as in the UN and EU policy agendas.…”

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Perceptions of Priority Policy Areas and Interventions for Urban Sustainability in Polish Municipalities: Can Polish Cities Become Smart, Inclusive and Green?

2019

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The transition to sustainable urban development requires both appropriate city management and local authorities that are aware of the implications posed by new urban sustainability challenges. The article aims to identify the priority policy/practice areas and interventions to solve sustainability challenges in Polish municipalities, as well as the factors that differentiate these priorities. Through an online questionnaire we surveyed 460 Polish municipalities, and conducted a multidimensional assessment concerning how mayors (and their executive teams) prioritise possible policy/practice areas and interventions related to sustainability. Our analysis implies that the mayors (and their executive teams) assign higher priority to policy/practice areas and interventions related to economic and social domains, and slightly lower priority to environmental ones. However, an important finding is that the priority policy/practice areas and interventions do not correspond well to some of the contemporary sustainability challenges in Polish cities. Effectively tackling urban environmental, economic and social problems would require the implementation of new approaches related to smart cities, the circular economy and/or cultural diversity. However, these less traditional policy/practice areas and interventions are quite low on the priority list of Polish mayors and their executive teams. Interestingly mayors and executive teams that prefer more participatory and solidarity-based management approaches are more likely to prioritise less traditional policy/practice areas and interventions to solve urban sustainability challenges in their municipalities.

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“…Like definitions and goals in the literature, there are also different ways that the causes of shrinkage are considered. They often differ according to the geography they are describing, but little has been written that uniquely categorizes these different traditions of shrinkage; apart from somewhat distinct scholarly traditions worldwide, places in countries as different as Japan, Germany, and the United States can all be described as “shrinking cities.” The structural collapse of industrial economies in both Germany and the United States are often cited as causes of shrinkage, whereas literature on shrinking Japanese cities tends to focus on low birth rate (Ganning and Tighe 2018; Grant et al 2006; Beyer, Hagemann, and Rieniets 2006). Pallagst, Wiechmann, and Martinez-Fernandez (2013) state that “Marked by a loss of employment opportunities and the attendant out-migration of population, many shrinking cities have suffered from the post-industrial shift from manufacturing to service industries” (p. 3).…”

Section: Defining the Shrinking Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The fragmented nature with which shrinking cities have been described has received some criticism (Bernt 2016; Oswalt 2005; LaCroix 2010; Ganning and Tighe 2018). Oswalt (2005) points to a degree of superficiality, calling it “a problematic term” due to the multitude of causes that are said to be united under symptoms of population loss and economic decline (p. 12).…”

Section: Defining the Shrinking Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Oswalt (2005) points to a degree of superficiality, calling it “a problematic term” due to the multitude of causes that are said to be united under symptoms of population loss and economic decline (p. 12). Others have brought concerns that the lack of a unified definition creates challenges for how the term might be operationalized, “reflect[ing] simultaneous, overlapping, and uncoordinated publication of papers focusing on similar issues operationalized in different ways” (Ganning and Tighe 2018, 2). Bernt (2016) has made the argument that the causes and contexts of shrinkage do not seem to belong in the same analysis.…”

Section: Defining the Shrinking Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Critiques of the Shrinking Cities Literature from an Urban Political Economy Framework

Berglund

2020

Journal of Planning Literature

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This article outlines the political economy critiques of the shrinking cities literature by answering the following: (1) how does the “shrinking cities” canon define a categorically distinct set of geographies with unique challenges and what solutions are proposed? and (2) how has the urban political economy literature engaged with and critiqued these ways of framing problems and solutions? This analysis finds that the “the shrinking city” is loosely defined and that debates exist around their exceptionalism. Urban political economy scholarship debates whether the solutions provided through shrinking cities literature are innovative alternatives to growth-oriented development or manifestations of austerity urbanism.

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Moving toward a Shared Understanding of the U.S. Shrinking City

Cited by 35 publications

References 37 publications

Neighborhood decline and mixed land uses: Mitigating housing abandonment in shrinking cities

Neighborhood decline and mixed land uses: Mitigating housing abandonment in shrinking cities

Perceptions of Priority Policy Areas and Interventions for Urban Sustainability in Polish Municipalities: Can Polish Cities Become Smart, Inclusive and Green?

Critiques of the Shrinking Cities Literature from an Urban Political Economy Framework

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