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Case Studies from France and Great Britain
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International Symposium "Coping with City Shrinkage and Demographic Change - Lessons from around the Globe"
30.-31.03.2006 Dresden, Germany
Sylvie Fol, Paris X - Nanterre University (France) and
Emmanuele Cunningham-Sabot, Université Rennes II - Haute Bretagne (France) |
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Sylvie Fol & Emmanuelle Cunningham-Sabot |
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Abstract |
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Shrinking Cities in Western Europe: Case Studies from France and Great Britain
If city shrinkage is a common phenomenon in a number of countries in Western Europe, it takes very different forms, as the examples of France and Great Britain well show.
In France, three different types of city shrinkage can be observed:
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in rather large urban areas located in old industrial regions (1 out of 6 largest urban areas)
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in small urban areas isolated from metropolitan development and transport infrastructures (1 out of 3 urban areas)
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in the central cities and inner suburbs of some growing urban areas.
In Great Britain, city shrinkage is concentrated in the largest urban areas:
all of the eight largest conurbations (except London and West Yorkshire) lost population during the 90’s,
within the declining conurbations, the cities themselves fared worse than their suburbs,
other large cities also lost population, although on a smaller scale,
declining cities are concentrated in declining regions (industrial regions of the North East, North West and Scotland)
After a general presentation of shrinking patterns in both countries, the paper will focus on case studies (in France, Saint-Etienne and shrinking cities in the first ring of Paris suburbs; in Great Britain, Glasgow and its urban area). We will analyze the factors and manifestations of shrinkage and examine the strategies implemented to address the problem of urban decline.
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