Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Book chapters |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4419-0851-3_211 |
| Title (Primary) | Urban redevelopment and quality of open spaces |
| Title (Secondary) | Encyclopedia of sustainability science and technology |
| Author | Mathey, J.; Rink, D. |
| Publisher | Meyers, R.A. |
| Year | 2012 |
| Department | SUSOZ |
| Volume | Vol. 16 |
| Page From | 11361 |
| Page To | 11375 |
| Language | englisch |
| UFZ inventory | 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 ... |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=13534 |
| 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 |
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