Shrinking Cities: Understanding urban decline in the United States
Russell Weaver · Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen · Jason Knight · Amy E. Frazier
Jul 2016 · Routledge
Ebook
244
Pages
family_home
Eligible
info
reportRatings and reviews aren’t verified Learn More
About this ebook
Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the United States. The book juxtaposes the complex and numerous processes that contribute to these patterns with broader policy frameworks that have been under consideration to address shrinkage in U.S. cities. A range of methods are employed to answer theoretically-grounded questions about patterns of shrinkage and decline, the relationships between the two, and the empirical associations among shrinkage, decline, and several socio-economic variables. In doing so, the book examines new spaces of shrinkage in the United States. The book also explores pro-growth and decline-centered governance, which has important implications for questions of sustainability and resilience in U.S. cities. Finally, the book draws attention to U.S.-wide demographic shifts and argues for further research on socio-economic pathways of various groups of population, contextualized within population trends at various geographic scales. This timely contribution contends that an understanding of what the city has become, as it faces shrinkage, is essential toward a critical analysis of development both within and beyond city boundaries. The book will appeal to urban and regional studies scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, as well as practitioners and policymakers.
About the author
Russell Weaver is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Texas State University, USA.
Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen is a Professor of Geography at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.
Jason Knight
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.Amy E. Frazier is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Oklahoma State University, USA.
Rate this ebook
Tell us what you think.
Reading information
Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.
