Governance and Leadership in Shrinking Cities - Strategies for Managing Urban Decline

This book presents a novel approach to explaining the ability of cities to combat depopulation through the prism of urban leadership quality. It benefits from domestic empirical research, international case studies, and a survey of valuable practices and provides a new interpretation of the processes associated with these trends.

List of contents

Part I: Leadership in cities at risk of depopulation: a theoretical perspective 1. Depopulation: a theoretical perspective 2. Urban leadership: a theoretical perspective 3. Shrinking cities: a theoretical perspective 5. Urban resilience: a theoretical perspective Part II: Strategies and tactics in response to depopulation: International lessons learned 5. Japanese cities in the face of depopulation 6. Dutch cities in the face of depopulation 7. German cities in the face of depopulation 8. American cities in the face of depopulation Part III: Depopulation as a policy problem 9. Depopulation as a long-term policy problem 10. Depopulation and agenda setting 11. Summary and conclusions

About the author

Stanis¿aw Mazur is Rector of the Krakow University of Economics and Head of the Department of Public Policy.

Summary

This book presents a novel approach to explaining the ability of cities to combat depopulation through the prism of urban leadership quality. It benefits from domestic empirical research, international case studies, and a survey of valuable practices and provides a new interpretation of the processes associated with these trends.

Product details

• Authors: Stanislaw Mazur
• Assisted by: Stanisław Mazur (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032444017
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3244401-7
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional, Management: leadership & motivation, Management: leadership and motivation, urban economics, Economics of industrial organisation, Human Geography, Development Studies, Public ownership / nationalization, Economics of industrial organization, Regional / urban economics