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oapen-20.500.12657-542672022-05-05T02:55:13Z Postsocialist Shrinking Cities Wu, Chung-Tong Gunko, Maria Stryjakiewicz, Tadeusz Zhou, Kai Post-Socialist Cities Post-Socialist Shrinking Cities Shrinking Cities Asia Shrinking Cities China shrinking cities urban decline urban growth urban sprawl bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography This book provides a comparative analysis of shrinking cities in a broad range of postsocialist countries within the so-called Global East, a liminal space between North and South. While shrinking cities have received increased scholarly attention in the past decades, theoretical, and empirical research has remained predominantly centered on the Global North. This volume brings to the fore a range of new perspectives on urban shrinkage, identifying commonalities, differences, and policy experiences across a very diverse and vivid region with its various legacies and contemporary controversial developments. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, insider views assist in decolonizing urban theory. Specifically, the book includes chapters on shrinking cities in China, Russia, and postsocialist Europe, presenting comparative discussions within countries and crossnational cases on theoretical and policy implications. The book will be of interest to students and scholars researching urban studies, urban geography, urban planning, urban politics and policy, urban sociology, and urban development. 2022-05-04T14:15:49Z 2022-05-04T14:15:49Z 2022 book ONIX_20220504_9781000545524_2 9781000545524 9781032212814 9780367415235 9780367815011 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54267 eng Routledge Contemporary Perspectives on Urban Growth, Innovation and Change application/pdf n/a 9781000545524.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780367815011 10.4324/9780367815011 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781000545524 9781032212814 9780367415235 9780367815011 Routledge 392 open access
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This book provides a comparative analysis of shrinking cities in a broad range of postsocialist countries within the so-called Global East, a liminal space between North and South. While shrinking cities have received increased scholarly attention in the past decades, theoretical, and empirical research has remained predominantly centered on the Global North. This volume brings to the fore a range of new perspectives on urban shrinkage, identifying commonalities, differences, and policy experiences across a very diverse and vivid region with its various legacies and contemporary controversial developments. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, insider views assist in decolonizing urban theory. Specifically, the book includes chapters on shrinking cities in China, Russia, and postsocialist Europe, presenting comparative discussions within countries and crossnational cases on theoretical and policy implications. The book will be of interest to students and scholars researching urban studies, urban geography, urban planning, urban politics and policy, urban sociology, and urban development.
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