Contents // List of Illustrations • // List of Contributors ?*? // 1 W(h)ither the European Shrinking City? ] William ]. V. Neill and Hans Schiappa // 2 Carry on Shrinking? The Bankruptcy of Urban // Policy in Detroit 1 // William J. V. Neill // 3 Governing Social Cohesion in Shrinking Cities: // The Cases of Ostrava, Genoa and Leipzig 27 // Caterina Cortese, Katrin Grossmann, // Annegret Haase and Iva Ticha // 4 Civic Engagement and Development Strategies: Learning // from the Experience of Participatory Rural Redevelopment 44 // David Houston, Stephen McKay and Michael Murray // 5 The Role of the Social Economy in the Shrinking City 55 // Brendan Murtagh // 6 Doing Things Differently: Co-producing Responses to // Urban Shrinkage 69 // —Hans Schiappa--7 The Challenge of Temporary Usage in the Shrinking City: A Report from the ‘Laboratory of Berlin’ // Christian Porst and William]. V. Neill // 82 // x // Contents // 8 Shrinking Cities and Food: Place-making for Sustainable // Renewal, Reuse and Retrofit 95 // Susan Parham // 9 Green Open Spaces and Urban Perforation: Opportunities, // Concepts and Challenges for Shrinking Cities 114 // Cornelius Scherzer // 10 Managing Brownfield Land in Stagnant Land Markets 138 // Uwe Ferber and Hans Schiappa // 11 Managing Service Infrastructures in Shrinking Cities: // Challenges and Opportunities 155 // Jörg Walther // 12 Coming of Age: Age-friendly Strategies for Shrinking Cities 169 // Roos Galjaard // 13 If Not Growth What Then?
Re-thinking the Strategy // Process for Shrinking Cities 180 // Hans Schiappa // 14 Conclusions: Priorities for Tackling Shrinkage in // Europe’s Cities 192 // Hans Schiappa and William J. V. Neill // Index // 203