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Questions
- What are the different effects of city shrinkage? In what main fields do they occur: demographics, economics, social life, and urban form?
- What urban and regional policies, programs and strategies have been successful in addressing the problem of shrinking cities?
- What are the respective roles of public and private initiatives? How can they be articulated? Who are the key-actors playing a role in the redevelopment process of shrinking cities?
- What are the key-factors linking globalization and city shrinkage? Can approaches of regional governance be generalized or are they locally/regionally specific?
- Which assumptions, concepts, values and practices of planning and development need revision in view of the shrinking cities phenomena? In other words, is there a need for a new vision and a shift in paradigm for urban and regional planning and growth?
- What are the policy implications of shrinking cities for urban and regional development? What is the role of local, regional and national policies and programs?