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| URBAN SHRINKAGE IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINA |
| MA Zuo-peng, LI Cheng-gu, ZHANG Jing, ZHOU Guo-lei, SHEN Qing-xi |
| College of Geographical Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China |
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Abstract The process of the development of western cities indicates that urban shrinkage is restricted by the transformation of social institution and economy, de-industrialization, suburbanization, economic globalization and natural disaster and so on, therefore, urban shrinkage is the normal performance of social and economic development during evolution of urban, and is able to take place in all cities. Urban shrinkage has several features that they are a large of number of people loss, industry to replace disconnect, urban land idle and deterioration of urban environment. Consequently, urban shrinkage has a profound impact on the transformation of economy and society and the reconstruction of urban space structure of developed countries. In order to effectively run the shrinking cities, the countermeasures, that is shrinking smart and a resilient city, are taken shape in the western countries. By reducing the scale of urban and enhancing the economic diversity, a shrinking city is revived, which has a positive reference to the rapid development of industrialized countries, such as China. In view of the condition, the literature sorts the phenomenon and fact of urban shrinkage in the developed countries, including concept of urban shrinkage, characteristics and patterns of urban shrinkage, and explores the mechanism of formation and response to urban shrinkage. Then, we analyze Chinese urban shrinkage's mechanism, including the core-periphery effect of urban agglomeration development, large scale and disorder development of urban space, de-industrialization and the increasing of labor cost, reveal the manifestations of the existing urban shrinkage, including "post-northeast phenomenon", "hollow towns", "ghost towns", "resource exhausted cities" and "small coastal cities" on the basis of the stage of Chinese urban development and the background of economic development. At last, we propose some steps to response to the developing trend of Chinese cities, including shrinking smart mechanism, diversification of urban development, land bank, green space storage institution and adjustment of urban development.
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Received: 26 March 2015
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2016, Vol. 31 
