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Environment and the shrinking city
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International Symposium "Coping with City Shrinkage and Demographic Change - Lessons from around the Globe"
30.-31.03.2006 Dresden, Germany
Helen Mulligan, Cambridge Architectural Research (UK)
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Environment and the shrinking city
The challenges posed by shrinking cities are faced by planners in every region of the world. At the same time, awareness of environmental issues has been increasing among both policymakers and the general public: some countries have undertaken binding commitments in the environmental sphere under the Kyoto process, while others -such as the US- are implementing programs at the sub-national level. These issues come together in the consideration of how actions in the environmental sphere can help to address the challenges posed by shrinking cities.
This paper compares experiences in a number of cities in Europe and America, including Pittsburgh (US), Gelsenkirchen (Germany), and the Newark and Sherwood district in the UK.
It briefly assesses the different manifestations of shrinkage, due to the operation of different factors and processes, and their relation to sustainability criteria used for established assessment methodologies in the built environment. A group of numerical indicators is proposed, which will enable the characteristics of various cities to be compared - and explore the transformative processes that have operated in them over time.
The paper will examine policy approaches in a number of cities faced with conditions of economic crisis attended by population loss: why issues of environmental have been targeted; what measures were put in place; and whether positive results can yet be reported. Its thesis is that environmental concerns can act as an important catalyst for change in conditions of stasis and retrenchment |
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