Postsocialist Shrinking Cities.

• Superior document: Routledge Contemporary Perspectives on Urban Growth, Innovation and Change Series
• Author: Wu, Chung-Tong.
• TeilnehmendeR: Gunko, Maria.; Stryjakiewicz, Tadeusz.; Zhou, Kai.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Perspectives on Urban Growth, Innovation and Change Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (393 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- PART I: Shrinkage in the postsocialist countries: Concepts and theory -- 1. Introduction: Urban shrinkage in the postsocialist realm -- 2. Postsocialist shrinking cities in a triple geopolitical and socioeconomic context -- PART II: China -- 3. Introduction to the China section -- 4. Population shrinkage in resource-dependent cities of China during transition period -- 5. Examining the economic growth trajectories of China's resource-exhausted cities from 1995 to 2018 within the framework of urban shrinkage -- 6. Two sides of the same coin: City growth and shrinkage in rapidly urbanizing southern China -- 7. Shrinkage under growth: A case study of regional shrinkage in Wuhan, China -- 8. Urban shrinkage in the double periphery: Insights from the Sino-Russian borderland -- PART III: Russia -- 9. Introduction to the Russia section -- 10. Urban shrinkage in Russia: Concepts and causes of urban population loss in the post-Soviet period -- 11. Diverse landscape of urban and regional shrinkage in Russia: Preconditions versus preconceptions in planning and policy -- 12. The transformation of local labor markets in shrinking cities in Russia from 2010 to 2017 -- 13. Giving birth in dying towns: Healthcare shrinkage in a depopulating Russian region -- 14. Review of spatial planning instruments in a Russian shrinking city: The case of Kirovsk in the Murmansk region -- PART IV: Postsocialist Europe -- 15. Introduction to the Postsocialist Europe section -- 16. Shrinking cities in postsocialist countries of Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe: A general and comparative overview -- 17. Shrinking cities in Poland.recent trends of change and emerging policy responses.

18. Coping with shrinkage in old and young mining cities in Slovakia: The cases of Banská Štiavnica and Prievidza -- 19. Why is Ostrava in Czechia still shrinking? -- 20. Drivers, consequences, and governance of urban shrinkage in Lithuania: The case of Šiauliai -- PART V: Conclusions, policy implications and research -- 21. Postsocialist Shrinking Cities: Policy themes and future research -- Index.