Problem, research strategy, and findings: Historic preservation and planning often operate
together in the United States within local planning departments, sharing some common roots …

PREVIOUS chapters have emphasized how the declining city was marginalized by fleeing
capital and people. The central point of those chapters was that these two types of flight …

Urban shrinkage, as a global socioeconomic issue, has raised the attention of many
geographers and urban planners. However, researches on urban shrinkage have mainly …

The changing nature of how children engage with their physical environment is one factor in
the dramatic increase in childhood overweight. Children today are engaging much less with …

This article examines residential vacancy patterns in Buffalo, NY, using data from a unique
data set. It includes variables from HUD Aggregate USPS Administrative Data on Address …

Land abandonment is one of the most challenging planning problems facing shrinking cities
in the United States. Most abandoned urban land finds its way into the tax foreclosure …

Previous research has shown that housing abandonment contributes to neighborhood
decline by depressing nearby property values. However, most past research estimated the …

The 1980s saw the emergence of neighborhood early warning systems that use indicators to
assess patterns of neighborhood change. In more recent years, new systems and analyses …

In recent years there has been a growing focus on urban and environmental studies, and the
skills and techniques needed to address the wider challenges of how to create sustainable …

Governments around the world are increasingly recognizing the power of problem-oriented
governance as a way to address complex public problems. As an approach to policy design …