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What is Urban Shrinkage

Smart Cities, Citizen Welfare, and the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals
Refers to a concomitant process of demographic and economic decline with a structural impact on two constitutive elements of the city, the density of the population and its economic functions, thus generating considerable social effects ( Martinez-Fernandez et al., 2012 ).
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Analysis of Demographic Changes in Urban Decline and Shrinkage
José G. Vargas-Hernández (Instituto Tecnológico José Mario Molina Pasquel y Henríquez, Mexico) and Justyna Anna Zdunek-Wielgołaska (Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7785-1.ch010
Abstract
This chapter is aimed to analyse the implications that demographic changes have on urban decline and shrinkage in a global environment. The analysis departs from the assumption that deindustrialization restructuring and demographic suburbanization processes contribute to economic urban decline and shrinkage. After reviewing the evolution of urban decline and shrinkage framed on a methodological approach, the study analyses in detail the different factors involved in any demographic and urban decline and shrinkage. It is concluded that deindustrialization restructuring, demographic decline, and suburbanization processes are crucial in urban shrinkage.
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