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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Buchkapitel
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0851-3_211
Titel (primär) Urban redevelopment and quality of open spaces
Titel (sekundär) Encyclopedia of sustainability science and technology
Autor Mathey, J.; Rink, D.
Herausgeber Meyers, R.A.
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
Department SUSOZ
Band/Volume Vol. 16
Seite von 11361
Seite bis 11375
Sprache englisch
UFZ Bestand Leipzig, Bibliothek, Hauptlesesaal, Vol. 16 U-V, 00498104, 14-0907 DK: Lex 504.06.002(03) Enc; Online-Version des Gesamtwerkes auch vorhanden
Abstract Urban shrinkage has become a new normality for a growing number of European cities and urban regions. It is a result of different but strongly interconnected processes: uneven economic development, demographic change, shifts in land use and urban form, as well as housing preferences and lifestyles. Shrinking urban regions develop their own patterns of development, and form distinctive dynamics that differ from those of their growing counterparts. Shrinkage, however, produces brownfield sites or open spaces of various sizes practically everywhere in the urban fabric. Many local authorities engage in scattered downsizing within existing settlements. But this type of urban redevelopment reaches its limits when “holes” steadily multiply and the physical urban fabric disintegrates. Redevelopment and downsizing raise the question of how the design of open and green space can provide a new quality of urban ...
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Mathey, J., Rink, D. (2012):
Urban redevelopment and quality of open spaces
In: Meyers, R.A. (ed.)
Encyclopedia of sustainability science and technology
Vol. 16
Springer, New York, p. 11361 - 11375 10.1007/978-1-4419-0851-3_211