Addressing urban shrinking through bottom-up strategies: a case of Parkstad

D.A.H. Reijnders; S. Krishnamurthy; D.F.M. van Tetering

doi:10.18848/2154-8676/CGP/v08i04/13-29

Addressing urban shrinking through bottom-up strategies: a case of Parkstad

D.A.H. Reijnders, S. Krishnamurthy, D.F.M. van Tetering

School of Geosciences

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The region of Parkstad in the south of theNetherlands belongs to the cross border geography of Germany to the east andBelgium to the south. A once flourishing mining area, the region today faceseconomic and structural difficulties, aging population and youth migration,symptoms synonymous with urban shrinkage. Parkstad though appears to havepartially accepted that shrinkage has to be strategically addressed, planningfor decline is a time-consuming process. This paper positions the role of bottom-upstrategies as an alternative to formal planning when coping with urbanshrinkage.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	13-29
Number of pages	17
Journal	Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies
Volume	8
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18848/2154-8676/CGP/v08i04/13-29
Publication status	Published - 2017

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