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Shrinking Cities or Urban Transformation is a PhD-thesis conducted at the Department of Architecture and Design, Aalborg University in the period 2004-2008. The PhD concerns the spatial changes that emerge in contemporary urbanity. Contemporary urbanity can among others be characterized as both growing and declining. On the one hand, a concentration of the urban into a highly urbanized nodal point is happening and on the other a deconcentration of the urban fabric in declining territories is taking place. The starting point for the dissertation is the term shrinking cities, which has been introduced to describe the declining territories. This term is investigated resulting in a questioning of the term. This questioning of the term brings about a further theoretical investigation of growth and decline and the underlying trends. Following the theoretical investigations an empirical investigation of the cases Baltimore and Denmark is conducted. This shall shed light upon whether the theoretical assumptions correspond to what is happening in the real world. The introduction of the term urban transformation is the result of these investigations and a response to shrinking cities. Urban transformation is a holistic and relational conception embracing both growth and decline. Thus, the urban landscape can be described as a conglomerate containing built-up and open spaces as well as urban growth and urban decline. Following the theoretical and empirical analysis the thesis enters into a focus of how to handle negative urban development. This concerns the investigation of design interventions conducted in the two cases Denmark and Baltimore. These investigations are then transformed into a guiding model for how to handle shrinking cities. This frame consists of five overall themes: multifunctional landscapes, soft tools, pragmatic solutions, strategic solutions and, arhcitecture and design and approaching the field of negative urban development by encompassing the following issues: working overall strategically and locally with the place-based potentials; to combine the local space pioneers with overall policies, to combine political will with the use of place-based potentials, to work in between phasing out and development, to create distinction and add new energy.

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Slums, informal settlements, and dilapidated inner-city tenements are problems that many cities in Asia and the Pacific struggle with while their economies try to modernize and develop. Their existence puts at risk not only these economies but also poor people occupying vulnerable areas that climate change and natural disasters will only make worse. Slums are being addressed in countries in Asia and the Pacific but not yet at the rate required to create livable cities. ADB's Strategy 2020 aims for "livable cities" and will address the range of problems resulting from rapid urbanization and the limited capacity of basic service delivery associated with present and future urban growth. To accomplish the vision of livable cities, livelihood opportunities and shelter options of incremental land and housing development are important. ADB's developing member countries will look for viable lending opportunities to finance inclusive cities.

Slums, informal settlements, and dilapidated inner-city tenements are problems that many cities in Asia and the Pacific struggle with while their economies try to modernize and develop. Their existence puts at risk not only these economies but also poor people occupying vulnerable areas that climate change and natural disasters will only make worse. Slums are being addressed in countries in Asia and the Pacific but not yet at the rate required to create livable cities. ADB's Strategy 2020 aims for "livable cities" and will address the range of problems resulting from rapid urbanization and the limited capacity of basic service delivery associated with present and future urban growth. To accomplish the vision of livable cities, livelihood opportunities and shelter options of incremental land and housing development are important. ADB's developing member countries will look for viable lending opportunities to finance inclusive cities.

Mit dem Urban Audit ist - nach einer Pilotphase 1998-2000 - im Jahre 2001 ein Instrument geschaffen worden mit dem Ziel, eine "solide Datengrundlage zu schaffen, um über gemeinsame Fragen im Zusammenhang mit der Stadtentwicklung besser entscheiden zu können" (EU-Kommission). Im Rahmen des Urban Audit-Projektes hat man sich auf einen umfangreichen Datenkatalog demographischer, sozialer, wirtschaftlicher und ökologischer Indikatoren verständigt. Diese Daten werden, soweit verfügbar, von den nationalen Koordinierungsstellen aus amtlichen Statistiken sowie von den beteiligten Städten zusammengetragen und bei Eurostat in einer Datenbank abgelegt. Sie sollen es ermöglichen, europäische Städte miteinander zu vergleichen. Von den insgesamt 258 (künftig rd. 360) europäischen Urban Audit-Städten liegen 35 (künftig 40) in Deutschland. Sie wirken im KOSIS-Verbund Urban Audit zusammen, der in Abstimmung mit dem "Netzwerk Stadt- und Regionalstatistik" und im Einvernehmen mit den Statistischen Ämtern des Bundes und der Länder das Vorhaben inhaltlich betreut. Die Arbeitshilfe konzentriert sich auf die Städte in ihren Verwaltungsgrenzen. Ihre Anwendung auf die UA-Regionen und UA-Stadtteile bleibt den Städten überlassen. Die nun erleichterte inhaltliche und methodische Auseinandersetzung mit den Urban Audit-Daten lässt einen fruchtbaren Informations- und Erfahrungsaustausch erwarten.

Contents: 1. Introduction: architecture and modern cities -- Part I The hard side -- 2. Stimulating the revival of the city -- 3. Establishing business center status -- 4. Establishing global city status - the world's tallest building -- 5. Creating transformative parks -- Part II The soft side -- 6. Establishing a 'brand' or 'identity' -- 7. Relating the city to the nation -- 8. Attracting a specific social cohort -- 9. Creating community -- Part III Final thoughts -- 10. What happens when a city fails to use architecture creatively? -- 11. Some observations and conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.

Not Available ; This paper is an extensive comment on five Nordic EIA studies from the perspective of planning theory. It is shown how issues raised and problems encountered in several of these studies relate to current debates in the international planning literature. The themes receiving most attention are the different functions of the EIA process as deliberative democracy and technocratic prediction of effects, EIA as managing uncertainty and locational conflict, EIA as a vehicle for public involvement, communicative distortions in impact assessment, the use and misuse of EIA results, and the relationship between EIA problems and organisational design. ; Not Available