Smarter Shrinkage: a Neighborhood-Scaled Rightsizing Strategy Based on Land Use Dynamics

• Published in: Journal of geovisualization and spatial analysis Vol. 2; no. 2
• Main Authors: Newman, Galen, Hollander, Justin B., Lee, Jaekyung, Gu, Donghwan, Kim, Boah, Lee, Ryun Jung, Horney, Jennifer A., Bearfield, Domonic, Li, Yuxian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.12.2018
• Subjects: cities; Earth and Environmental Science; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Geography; Geology; Innovative approaches; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry; tools and visualization techniques for analyzing land use structures and dynamics of cities and regions; towns; Urban Geography; Urbanism (inc. megacities; Shrinking cities; Land use prediction; Urban decline; Vacant land; Smart Shrinkage

Despite global projections of increasingly concentrated urban population growth, many cities still suffer from severe depopulation (or shrinkage), which results in increased vacant land/structural abandonment. As a consequence, shrinking urban areas are now seeking ways to more intelligently invento...