Patterns of Urban Shrinkage: A Systematic Analysis of Romanian Cities (1992–2020)
| Autor: | Alexandra Lazăr, Alexandra Cehan, Mihail Eva |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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depopulation
post-socialist transition Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography Economic decline TJ807-830 02 engineering and technology Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 Eu countries Renewable energy sources de-densification East-Central Europe demographic shrinkage media_common.cataloged_instance Revenue GE1-350 demographic decline European union media_common Shrinkage Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Romanian 05 social sciences post-socialist city urban decline 021107 urban & regional planning language.human_language Environmental sciences Geography urban growth Urban change language Demographic economics 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 13 Issue 13 Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 7514, p 7514 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su13137514 |
| Popis: | EU post-socialist countries are nowadays the epicenter of urban shrinkage, despite economic growth trajectories reported during the last decades. However, systematic assessments of urban shrinkage patterns for this part of the continent are surprisingly insufficiently addressed in the literature, and the relationship between urban demographic decline/growth and economic decline/growth is still to be understood. This paper first delivers a state-of-the-art of the peculiarities of urban shrinkage in East-Central EU countries. Secondly, it employs an analysis grid to assess severity, prevalence, persistence, speed and regional incidence of urban decline in Romania—one of the most affected post-socialist countries within the European Union. Thirdly, it explores the statistical association between urban shrinkage severity and economic growth, on one hand, and between urban shrinkage severity and municipality revenues, on the other. Results show that urban shrinkage is currently increasing in prevalence and severity among Romanian cities, thus continuing an alarming trend that started in 1990. Secondly, the results pinpoint a statistically significant association between demographic shrinkage, local economic output and municipalities’ own-source revenues. However, the size effects are rather weak, suggesting a more nuanced relationship between economic and demographic urban growth than that predicted by some theories of urban change. |
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