The Shrinking City as a Testing Ground for Urban Degrowth Practices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22018378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maurice Hermans (Maastricht University), Joop de Kraker (0000-0002-7968-0680, Maastricht University), Christian Scholl (0000-0002-9401-4416, Maastricht University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/up.8008 |
| OpenAlex | W4398206196 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 33 |
To inform and operationalize an urban degrowth agenda, more systematic and larger-scale experimentation with degrowth practices is needed. The aim of this study was to explore the suitability of shrinking cities as testing grounds for urban degrowth practices. To answer this question, we analyzed two cases, both urban greening initiatives, located in the shrinking urban region of Parkstad Limburg, in the Netherlands. The cases show that in a shrinking city, with a large surplus of urban land and long-term vacancy and demolishing of buildings, there is literally abundant “room” to experiment with alternative ways and types of urban land use. There is also interest on the side of the local government in alternatives to the conventional approaches to urban planning and development. As both cases can be interpreted as “experiments with urban degrowth practices,” it can be concluded that shrinking cities offer ample opportunities for urban degrowth experiments. The lessons learned from the two studied cases are not very positive concerning the wider feasibility of the tested degrowth practices, but as experiments, the cases can be considered successful. This is because they provided a better understanding of the conditions required for the implementation and upscaling of these practices, also in growing cities. To inform and operationalize an urban degrowth agenda, we, therefore, recommend more research on cases in shrinking cities that can be interpreted and analyzed as experiments with urban degrowth practices
Biology · Degrowth · Economics · Environmental ethics · Resizing · Sustainability · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Philosophy · Urban Development and Cultural Heritage · Urbanization and City Planning · Ecology
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Reconfiguring Urban Sustainability Transitions, Analysing Multiplicity
Degrowth
Urban Planning by Experiment
The Practice of Urban Experimentation in Dutch City Labs
Urban planning and degrowth
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A Green New Deal without growth
Feasible alternatives to green growth
Urban growth and decline
Urban living laboratories
Sharing, togetherness and intentional degrowth
The shrinking city in comparative perspective
Detroit after bankruptcy
Urbanizing degrowth
Beyond urban ecomodernism
Government by experiment? Global cities and the governing of climate change
Greening the urban frontier
What is Degrowth? From an Activist Slogan to a Social Movement
Geographies of degrowth
Redefining the city and demolishing the rest
Towards an urban degrowth
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |