Oswalt, P.., 2004, Schrumpfende Städte Bd 1, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfieldern Ruit
- Author : Oswalt, P..
- Year : 2004
- Title English : Shrinking Cities - Volume 1
- Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
- Publisher's Location : Ostfieldern Ruit
- ISBN : 978-3-7757-1682-6
- Pages : 735
- Abstract : Whether in Great Britain or Belgium, in Finland, Italy, Russia, Kazakhstan or China: cities are shrinking the world over. Whereas in the past the growth of the megalopolis has been at the center of the urban planning debate, in other places zones of shrinkage were developing, which were characterized by enormous population losses and high rates of unemployment. Globalization and the transition to post-socialism have accelerated this process even more. Using concrete examples, this volume first analyses the causes and dynamics of shrinkage processes worldwide. Detroit, Manchester and Liverpool, Ivanovo (Russia) and Halle and Leipzig are all at the center of an international investigation of living conditions and cultural change in shrinking urban regions. Artist's contributions help sensitize viewers to this highly explosive phenomenon which poses a completely new social challenge. With texts by Regina Bittner, Robert Fishman, Yasuyuki Fuji, Linda Grant, Dave Haslam, Jerry Herron, Susanne Hauser, Wolfgang Kil, Thomas van Leeuwen, Klaus Müller, Klaus Ronneberger, Sergej Sitar, Thomas J. Sugrue, Katherine Verdery, Kevin Ward, and many others.; Photos by Stan Douglas, John Ganis, Ken Grant, Bas Princen, Tom Wood, Tobias Zielony and others.
- Outline : For four years, a large number of international researchers, artists, architects, and planners addressed the topic of processes of urban shrinking in the framework of the initiative project Shrinking Cities Two Books have been published that treat the theme of "Shrinking Cities" on several levels - global, mental, and cultural. Cultural processing and managing strategies stand in the center of these comprehensive publications, which grasp the challenge of shrinking cities as a design task.