Right Sizing the Shrinking City：Tales from Two Ger man Cases
Karina Pallagst
Ren Fleschurz
Siba Said
Abstract：Current debates in urban development display a rising awareness that several cities in Europe have to deal with chal enges of long-term urban shrinkage. However, on an international scale it is stil not clear if and how planning paradigms, planning systems, planning strategies and planning cultures are changing when shrinkage and decline are taking place. This paper investigates how planning is transformed in view of shrinking cities. For this purpose, the paper introduces two German cities’storylines framed by shrinkage: Kaiserslautern and Zwickau. Particular focus lies on the question if and how dealing with decline and shrinkage led to changes in urban planning and brought about different planning styles.
Keywords：right-sizingplanning stylesshrinking citiesGermany
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：7( 54-60 )