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Greening the shrinking city—policies and planning approaches in the USA with the example of Flint, Michigan

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  • Karina Pallagst
  • René Fleschurz
  • Franziska Trapp

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For many years, shrinking cities in the USA used to be a taboo, not fitting in the pattern of growth and progress anticipated by community leaders. Nevertheless, shrinking in terms of economic decline and population loss is an enduring phenomenon for many post-industrial US cities. One negative effect of shrinkage is extended portions of vacant land with blighted and deteriorating buildings. Some US shrinking cities recently started actively dealing with vacated portions of land, seeing these areas as new assets on the way to more sustainable and livable cities. The paper will present greening or green infrastructure development from the point of view of the US planning debate, focusing on two forms of greening: rightsizing and urban agriculture. Moreover, recent greening efforts will be highlighted with the example Flint, Michigan, anchored in a debate of paradigmatic shifts and sustainable development.

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  • Karina Pallagst & René Fleschurz & Franziska Trapp, 2017. "Greening the shrinking city—policies and planning approaches in the USA with the example of Flint, Michigan," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(7), pages 716-727, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:42:y:2017:i:7:p:716-727
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2017.1372398
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    1. Zezhou Wu & Danting Zhang & Shenghan Li & Jianbo Fei & Changhong Chen & Bin Tian & Maxwell Fordjour Antwi-Afari, 2022. "Visualizing and Understanding Shrinking Cities and Towns (SCT) Research: A Network Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(18), pages 1-14, September.
    2. Angioletta Voghera & Benedetta Giudice, 2019. "Evaluating and Planning Green Infrastructure: A Strategic Perspective for Sustainability and Resilience," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(10), pages 1-21, May.
    3. Sonja Wilhelm Stanis & Emily Piontek & Shuangyu Xu & Andrew Mallinak & Charles Nilon & Damon M. Hall, 2024. "Residents’ Perceptions of Urban Greenspace in a Shrinking City: Ecosystem Services and Environmental Justice," Land, MDPI, vol. 13(10), pages 1-17, September.
    4. Mikel AGIRRE-MASKARIANO, 2019. "Resisting Against Speculative Urban Regeneration In The Shrinking City Of Ferrol," Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, Research Centre in Public Administration and Public Services, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 14(1), pages 5-29, February.
    5. Tong Wu & Beibei Ma & Yongyong Song, 2022. "Spatio-Temporal Patterns of County Population Shrinkage and Influencing Factors in the North–South Transitional Zone of China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(23), pages 1-22, November.

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