Study on Residents' Quality of Life in the Context of Urban Shrinkage: Analysis Based on Subjective and Objective Data

Why People Settle in Shrinking Communities: A Unified Framework of Psychological, Environmental, and Cognitive Factors

“…Since population decline is usually considered as a critical manifestation of the shrinkage phenomenon [2], studies on the shrinkage context usually involve the topic of RDM. Studies on RDM have been conducted in European countries such as Portugal [4,5] and Germany [6], and in Asian countries such as Japan [7,8] and China [9]. These studies have attempted to understand RDM in shrinking cities by capturing the effects of QoL (quality of life) [9][10][11], satisfaction with living [5,6], and pull or push factors for staying in the current place [4].…”

“…Studies on RDM have been conducted in European countries such as Portugal [4,5] and Germany [6], and in Asian countries such as Japan [7,8] and China [9]. These studies have attempted to understand RDM in shrinking cities by capturing the effects of QoL (quality of life) [9][10][11], satisfaction with living [5,6], and pull or push factors for staying in the current place [4]. Their results generally point out that a city experiencing shrinkage is not necessarily accompanied by a decline in QoL [9][10][11].…”

“…These studies have attempted to understand RDM in shrinking cities by capturing the effects of QoL (quality of life) [9][10][11], satisfaction with living [5,6], and pull or push factors for staying in the current place [4]. Their results generally point out that a city experiencing shrinkage is not necessarily accompanied by a decline in QoL [9][10][11]. The subjective well-being may be well-maintained [6] and the QoL even increase in shrinking cities [10,11].…”

“…The term "shrinking city", which is defined as "a densely populated urban area with a minimum population of 10,000 residents that has faced population losses in large parts for more than two years and is undergoing economic transformations with some symptoms of a structural crisis" [14] is used in a large number of studies e.g., [1,2,[4][5][6]. However, given that a city may contain both areas of population growth and population decline [15] and the unclear relation between QoL and tendency of urban shrinkage [9][10][11], studies based on the urban scale to understanding RDM may not explain the relationship between settlement behavior and their living environment effectively. In contrast, shrinkage at the neighborhood scale is more indicative of a potential feedback loop between population decline and the consequences of shrinkage (e.g., vacant housing, underutilized infrastructure, and reduced tax revenues).…”

Shrinking Cities and Towns: Policy Responses to the Challenges, Urban Planning, and Development Strategies

“…Yin et al (2020) examined the impact of neighborhood walkability concerning property values of single-family and duplex homes in three rust belt shrinking cities-Buffalo (New York), Pittsburgh, and Detroit. Liu et al (2020) took a typical shrinking city, Yichun, as an example, and quantitatively assessed the impact of urban shrinkage on residents' objective and subjective quality of life by using the statistical data and microblog data with a multiindex comprehensive evaluation method. Jiang et al (2020) redefined what constitutes a city, compared the adjusted nightlight intensity of NPP-VIIRS data between 2013 and 2016, identifying shrinking cities throughout China.…”