Shrinking Cities and Path Dependency

Shrinking Cities and Path Dependency

Mulder, A.

Architecture and The Built Environment

Real Estate & Housing

2013-06-19

When cities started shrinking, governments felt they had to do something. Where the main reason for shrinking was the closing down of traditional industry, economic policies were the first to be introduced: first by subsidising and reorganising existing companies, later by trying to create a more diverse employment structure. Gradually it was noticed that these policies did not always work and subsequently new policies, including social and housing market policies, were introduced. These could build on a framework of social and housing market policies that already was in place. Path dependency theories can lead to a better understanding of what goes on in different countries and cities. In this paper, a literature study into path dependency theories and their application to housing policy studies will result in an attempt to apply this policy framework to shrinking cities. Existing case studies (into the Manchester/Salford Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder and the IBA Emscher Park) will now be viewed in the light of path dependency theory.

shrinking cities
housing
path dependency

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:32ebd5b5-056f-4802-bbd4-43e85c9d19a8

ENHR

Campus only

ENHR 2013 Conference “Overcoming the Crisis, Integrating the Urban Environment", Tarragona, Spain, 19-22 June 2013

Institutional Repository

conference paper

(c) 2013 Mulder, A.