Topic · Urban Studies
Urbanization and City Planning
Urbanization and City Planning is a research topic within Urban Studies. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores the phenomenon of urban shrinkage, particularly in post-socialist contexts, analyzing the causes, effects, and policy responses to population loss, vacant land management, suburbanization, and socio-spatial disparities. It delves into the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in declining cities and examines the dynamics of reurbanization and demographic change.
- Shrinking Cities
- Urban Decline
- Post-Socialist Urbanism
- Socio-Spatial Disparities
- Vacant Land Management
- Suburbanization
- Population Loss
- Resilient Urban Transition
- Housing Abandonment
- Sustainability in Declining Cities
- Research works
- 24k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 2.5k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 10.5% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
- +6% the tick is no change
- Largest producer
China
19% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
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