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作者

Shuqi Gao;Hendrik Jansen;Brent D. Ryan

来源

CITIES,Vol.135,Issue1,Article 104185

语言

英文

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作者单位

Department of Urban Planning, School of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China;Department of Spatial Planning, Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany;Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA;Department of Urban Planning, School of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China;Department of Spatial Planning, Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany;Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA;Universiteler Mah, Dumlupinar Bul, No 1, 06800 Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey;School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Canada;School of Public Management, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China;Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College St. 5th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5T 3M7, Canada;Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Room 5047, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada;Centre for Connected Communities (C3), 832 College St., Suite 301, Toronto, Ontario M6G 1C8, Canada;Centre for Connected Communities, 832 College St., Suite 301, Toronto, Ontario M6G 1C8, Canada;Department of Urban Planning and Design, And Social Infrastructure for Equity and Wellbeing (SIEW) Lab, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;Urban Geographies/Centre for Urban Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1018 WV, Netherlands;Department of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, China;Institute of Geography, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), University of Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany;School of Integrated Climate System Sciences, University of Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany;Department of Earth Sciences, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan;Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy

摘要

Demolition is one of shrinking cities' most important strategies to deal with vacant and abandoned properties, but processes and outcomes vary between nations. How do demolition patterns differ or agree between shrinking cities in different nations, and what explains agreement or difference? This study analyzes demolition patterns in two mid-sized, isolated shrinking cities, the U.S. city of Flint and the German city of Dessau, between 2002 and 2016. We found significantly different patterns of demolition in the two cities. Demolition is more concentrated in Dessau, and more diffuse in Flint. We explain this difference in demolition patterns through three factors: housing tenure, social and physical structure, and demolition policy. Compared with Flint, Dessau has a much higher level of rental housing that concentrates in its urban center, facilitating tenant relocation into analogous units and permitting concentrated demolition. Flint's urban structure is homogenous with repetitive blocks of privatelyowned single-family housing, presenting a barrier for public intervention in vacancy. Dessau's demolition is financed by federal policy with explicit spatial intentions, whereas Flint's demolition is complaint-driven without substantial spatial consideration. The study findings indicate that demolition pattern is embedded in structural, historical, and national factors.