Urban Shrinkage and the Post-Socialist Transformation: The Case of Poland

Stryjakiewicz, Tadeusz; Ciesiółka, Przemysław; Jaroszewska, Emilia

doi:10.2148/benv.38.2.196

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“…Possible strategies for Romania are linked to finding solutions for inducing economic development, diminishing the peripheralisation process both within urban system and inside cities, encouraging these areas to become attractive both residentially and from the viewpoint of job opportunities and leisure areas in a clean and sound environment. Actually, if taking into account the practices in Poland [60] and other former communist countries were the transition was shorter, the strategies can be applied "in situ" oriented towards reducing unemployment by stimulating entrepreneurship or by revitalisation programmes (e.g., mining heritage conservation, urban core renewal, reuse of industrial buildings for culture and education projects or even for tourist activities etc.) or by empowering network strategies oriented towards polycentrism or improvement of transport accessibility.…”

Section: Adaptive Cycles-key Moments Trajectories Thresholds and Stmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges for the Resilience Capacity of Romanian Shrinking Cities

2017

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Abstract:In the context of deindustrialization and desurbanization, Romanian cities are confronted with issues related to natural demographic decline and out-migration, inducing apparently opposite, but complementary phenomena: slow-burn shrinkage and urban sprawl, which create peripheralisation processes both inside and outside the cities. The current approach acknowledges urban shrinkage within the context of post-communist transformations, but also as a "natural" process in the (adaptive) life cycle of cities. In this context, the study aims to explore the interdependencies between the causes and effects of shrinkage, on the one hand, and the operating feedback mechanisms which might lead to adaptation, on the other. It highlights the changes incurred by the territorial (un)balance combining the spatial analysis of urban shrinkage in relation to the diffused structures imposed by sub-urbanization or metropolisation processes. Using multi-criteria and time series analysis methods, the aim of the assessment is to determine and analyse the significant correlations and trends taking into account relevant demographic, social-economic as well as infrastructural and environmental indicators, in order to describe typologies of urban shrinkage in Romania and their adaptation potential. The results are interpreted in correlation with the need for sustainable strategies and planning, in order to tackle the issue of urban shrinkage in Romania.

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Section: Adaptive Cycles-key Moments Trajectories Thresholds and Stmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges for the Resilience Capacity of Romanian Shrinking Cities

2017

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“…This, in turn, makes the labour force dwindle and affects the local labour market, which generates further adverse effects. Understood in this way, the shrinkage mechanism shows a cumulative tendency and, left to itself, leads over a longer period to the reinforcement of negative consequences in many fields: demographic, economic, social and spatial (Stryjakiewicz et al 2012). If there appear new external determinants, the process can slow down or accelerate.…”

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The Process of Shrinkage as a Challenge to Urban Governance

Stryjakiewicz

Jaroszewska

2016

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For many decades most researchers, planners and local authorities have been focusing almost exclusively on urban growth and its socio-economic and spatial consequences. However, in the current debate concerning the future of cities and regions in Europe the process of their shrinkage starts to attract more attention. In the conditions of a declining population, urban governance is an important challenge for local authorities, being usually much more difficult than during the periods of population growth. The experience of cities affected by shrinkage shows that there is no simple method of counteracting negative consequences of this process. Regeneration strategies vary a lot, depending mostly on the way the problem is perceived by both central and local governments. The strategies can either choose an adaptive approach (the acceptance of shrinkage and adjustment to it), or attempt to renew growth (shrinkage is treated as just a temporary phenomenon). Quite often the problem is ignored and no action is taken at all. In the paper the authors discuss the conditions and consequences of different approaches towards the process of shrinkage and present examples of regeneration strategies (together with their assessment). They conclude with recommendations for future urban policies.

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“…The study of the urban shrinkage process has ranked among established research areas in a number of scientific disciplines [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Although shrinkage has affected 40% of medium-sized and large cities in Europe ten years ago [8] and 70% in Central and Eastern Europe [9], today it seems that some of the previously shrinking cities are gradually succeeding in mitigating or countering this process [7].…”

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Urban Shrinkage and Sustainability: Assessing the Nexus between Population Density, Urban Structures and Urban Sustainability

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Urban shrinkage has become a common pathway (not only) in post-socialist cities, which represents new challenges for traditionally growth-oriented spatial planning. Though in the post-socialist area, the situation is even worse due to prevailing weak planning culture and resulting uncoordinated development. The case of the city of Ostrava illustrates how the problem of (in)efficient infrastructure operation, and maintenance, in already fragmented urban structure is exacerbated by the growing size of urban area (through low-intensity land-use) in combination with declining size of population (due to high rate of outmigration). Shrinkage, however, is, on the intra-urban level, spatially differentiated. Population, paradoxically, most intensively declines in the least financially demanding land-uses and grows in the most expensive land-uses for public administration. As population and urban structure development prove to have strong inertia, this land-use development constitutes a great challenge for a city’s future sustainability. The main objective of the paper is to explore the nexus between change in population density patterns in relation to urban shrinkage, and sustainability of public finance.

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Urban Shrinkage and the Post-Socialist Transformation: The Case of Poland

Cited by 39 publications

References 10 publications

Challenges for the Resilience Capacity of Romanian Shrinking Cities

Challenges for the Resilience Capacity of Romanian Shrinking Cities

The Process of Shrinkage as a Challenge to Urban Governance

Urban Shrinkage and Sustainability: Assessing the Nexus between Population Density, Urban Structures and Urban Sustainability

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