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Abstract
Urban shrinkage has become a widespread phenomenon in contemporary urbanisation. Shrinking cities present multiple shrinkage-connected problems, where the most acute ones are demographic and social decline caused by bad economic performance. These problems are usually mirrored in urban space and thereby matters for urban planning, which, predictably, proposes mainly economic- and demographic-based models and solutions for shrinking cities. The other factors, such as environmental issues, are not well-established both in relevant theory and practice. Generally, environmental issues play a minor role for shrinking cities. However, they can be the factors to cause or to display the consequences of urban shrinkage, but they can also contribute to overcome related challenges. Therefore, environmental issues are unavoidable in any future agenda or policy in urban planning towards shrinking cities.The first step in the process of linking these two scientific fields – the concept of shrinking cities and environmental science – is certainly to check which environmental issues are relevant for the phenomenon of urban shrinkage. This is the main purpose of this research. It aims to collect and systematise the current knowledge about these links. The findings of this investigation bring new interrelations for the multi-face character of the concept of shrinking cities. Therefore, this research presents a new input how to strengthen currently weak links between the concept and shrinking cities and environmental studies, to facilitate a more adaptive planning for urban shrinkage.
Highlights
The first step in the process of linking these two scientific fields – the concept of shrinking cities and environmental science – is certainly to check which environmental issues are relevant for the phenomenon of urban shrinkage
Environmental issues are unavoidable in any future agenda or policy in urban planning towards shrinking cities
The loss of urban population is not the only determinant for the phenomenon of urban shrinkage; the other ones can be connected with the shrinking patterns, such as the decline of local economy, especially industry, deurbanisation through suburbanisation, the rise of unemployment, higher mobility of population, spatial deterioration [2]
Summary
The first step in the process of linking these two scientific fields – the concept of shrinking cities and environmental science – is certainly to check which environmental issues are relevant for the phenomenon of urban shrinkage. Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd local economy are usually seen as the best way to overcome shrinkage patterns, where the main indicator is the stabilisation or even regrowth of local urban population This relatively new research has embraced the other factors that extend of the essence of urban shrinkage as a global phenomenon and related scientific framework. Environmental issues belong to the mentioned minor factors in the process of urban shrinkage, but its importance has surged last years, with the rise of the topics of environment and ecology globally [7] This process has further fuelled by cementing the position of environmental studies as critical for the future of cities and urbanisation. Environmental issues emerge an unavoidable part in any future agenda or policy in the field of urban planning regarding shrinking cities
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