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Planning for Shrinkage: Paradox or Paradigm

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  • Sílvia Sousa
  • Paulo Pinho

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A great number of contributions regarding shrinking cities correspond to generic discourses on urban problems, which cover planning policies with approaches and strategies developed in somewhat diverse or even very different urban contexts. The debate on shrinkage is still feeble and fragmented. Perhaps this is owing to the character of shrinkage or its relative novelty. An explicit, unequivocal, and comprehensive theoretical debate and framework on the topic of planning for shrinkage is lacking. This entails a previous reflection about what shrinkage means or should mean, the role of urban and regional planning, and the contradictions of planning for shrinkage, which cause the paradox of planning for shrinkage. How can planning deal with shrinkage? What should policies for shrinkage look like? Is planning for shrinkage, planning for population decrease? Is it managing population decrease? Is it business as usual: planning to resume growth? What does managing shrinkage mean? The paper presents a theoretical debate and some preliminary conclusions addressing these questions.

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  • Sílvia Sousa & Paulo Pinho, 2015. "Planning for Shrinkage: Paradox or Paradigm," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(1), pages 12-32, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:23:y:2015:i:1:p:12-32
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2013.820082
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