Why Shrinking Cities Are Not Mirror Images of Growing Cities
A Research Agenda of Six Testable Propositions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6404557 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Galster (0000-0001-5054-0898, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 355-372 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1078087417720543 |
| OpenAlex | W2738658611 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 49 |
I advance six propositions regarding the features of urban decline processes that distinguish them from those in growing cities. First, they are demographically selective, as population losses are disproportionately comprised of more advantaged households. Second, they are dynamically nonlinear, as population changes exceed thresholds where socially problematic behaviors and residential disinvestment jump sharply. Third, they are asymmetrically scalable for technological, financial, physical, and political reasons. Fourth, they are minimally controlled by traditional land-use policies of zoning and building permits. Fifth, they are informally decentralized, as individuals and groups supplement the atrophied local public sector with “do it yourself” activities. Sixth, they are psychologically conservative, as residents try to conserve threatened physical, social, and psychological resources. The article synthesizes extant theory and evidence from multiple disciplines, although ultimately the propositions are advanced as working hypotheses commanding varying degrees of support, which collectively comprise a research agenda for further investigation
Disinvestment · Economic growth · Economics · Extant taxon · Market economy · Nomothetic and idiographic · Political science · Politics · Population · Public economics · Sociology · Zoning · Housing Market and Economics · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Urbanization and City Planning
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Toward a Transformative Planning Infrastructure
Differential drivers of rent burden in growing and shrinking cities
Unveiling the determinants of ageing in suburbs
Reflections on the post-pandemic future of shrinking cities
The Elasticity of Shrinking Cities
The effects of the local and regional conditions and inequalities on urban shrinkage
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From curse to blessing? Re-framing the economic underdevelopment of mining towns – with Western Australian illustrations
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Patterns of Loss
Legacy city residents’ lack of trust in their governments
Property taxation in a shrinking city
Contrasts in suburban decline
Diversity in decline
Mega-retail-led regeneration in the shrinking city
Effects of housing asset deflation on shrinking cities
Governance reaction to the emerging megacity shrinkage in Tokyo
Suburban (mis)fortunes
Shrinking on the margins
The limits of right-sizing
Rethinking Exclusionary Zoning or
Homeowners and neighborhood reinvestment
Rich lands and poor
Voices of decline
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The bounds of smart decline
Policy Responses to Urban Shrinkage
Identifying neighborhood thresholds
Bowling alone
The Influence of Culture, Community, and the Nested‐Self in the Stress Process
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Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation
Uncertainty, Expectations and Behavioural Aspects of Housing Market Choices
Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Management in Shrinking Cities
Varieties of shrinkage in European cities
The Triumph of the City
Are Males' Incomes Influenced by the Income Mix of Their Male Neighbors? Explorations into Nonlinear and Threshold Effects in Stockholm
Resource conservation as a strategy for community psychology
Neighbourhood Income Sorting and the Effects of Neighbourhood Income Mix on Income
A Culture of Distrust
A Theory of Urban Decline
Urban Decline and Durable Housing
Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect and the Coase Theorem
Housing
The Trapdoor of Community
Threshold models of diffusion and collective behavior
Making Democracy Work
Black on the block
Greening the Rust Belt
Conservation of resources
Guerrilla-style Defensive Architecture in Detroit
Conceptualizing Urban Shrinkage
A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action
The Impact of Migration on Poverty Concentrations in the United States, 1995-2000
The Epidemic Theory of Ghettos and Neighborhood Effects on Dropping Out and Teenage Childbearing
Threshold Models of Collective Behavior
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |