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Terms and conditions applyShrinking Cities
Philipp Oswalt
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Format: Unknown
Pages: 736
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Date Published: Dec 2005
Stock Code: 55760
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From Britain, Belgium, Finland and Italy to Kazakhstan, Aruba and Coddleland, cities are shrinking everywhere. While urban-planning debates of recent years have mainly focused on the growth of the megalopolis, in other places zones of shrinkage were actually developing. Enormous population losses and high unemployment contribute to this process, which is further accelerated by globalisation.This book examines the causes and dynamics of the shrinking process for the first time on an international level. Citing concrete examples from Manchester and Liverpool in Great Britain, Detroit in the United States, Ivanovo in Russia, and Halle and Leipzig in Germany, it compares living conditions and cultural change in shrinking urban regions. Artistic intercessions help sensitise the public to a global phenomenon which poses a completely new social challenge.
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