Parallel Patterns of Shrinking Cities and Urban Growth

Introduction; 1: Spatial Planning Approaches to Growth and Shrinkage: A Historical Perspective; 2: Balancing European Territory. The Challenge of the Post-Neoliberal Era; 3: Conceptualizing Shrinking Cities - A Challenge for Planning Theory; 4: Shrinking Cities in the Growth Paradigm: Towards Standardised Regrowing Strategies?; 5: Urban Transformations - The Dynamic Relation of Urban Growth and Decline; 6: The Importance of Strategic Spatial Goals for the Planning Process under Shrinkage Tendencies; 7: Regional Land use Management under Shrinkage Tendencies in the Region Halle-Leipzig 1; 8: Germany's Post-War Suburbs: Perspectives of the Ageing Housing Stock; 9: The Housing Market in Growing and Declining Regions - Political Implications for Housing Policy and Urban Planning; 10: Sustainable Suburbia through the Perspective of Lower Density and Shrinkage: The Case Study of the Nagoya Metropolitan Region in Japan; 11: Population Growth and Change in Non-Metropolitan Coastal Australia; 12: Counterurbanisation and Subjective Well-Being; 13: Socio-Environmental Impacts of New Housing Development at Infill and Greenfield Sites - Methodical Design for a Multicriteria Assessment; 14: Redeveloping the Redundant Defence Estate in Regions of Growth and Decline - Challenges for Spatial Planning; 15: The Regeneration of a Naval City: Portsmouth; 16: Conclusions Spatial Planning for the Dichotomy of Growth and Shrinkage