I. Audirac: Urban Shrinkage Amid Fast Metropolitan Growth
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Demographically, cities throughout the world seem to be expanding rather than shrinking. However a closer look at recent urban population change among the world’s largest urban agglomerations of one million people or more reveals that between 2000 and 2005, 30 out of 414 cities experienced zero to negative average annual growth (U.N. 2005). Recently, this internationalized pattern of city contraction has been widely recognized as a global phenomenon requiring a paradigm shift away from traditional theories of urban growth and change (Oswalt 2006). Yet new theories about the causes of this phenomenon remain contested and vary according to authors’ theoretical perspectives, as well as the geographical context and spatial scale of their analyses.
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