PROPOSITIONS FOR AN UNDERSTANDING OF URBAN SHRINKAGE UNDER PLANETARY URBANIZATION
PROPOSITIONS FOR AN UNDERSTANDING OF URBAN SHRINKAGE UNDER PLANETARY URBANIZATION

Summary/Abstract: This theoretical essay reflects on the conceptual underpinnings of research in the literature of urban shrinkage. It builds upon criticisms of the literature, mainly on the lack of urban theoretical reasoning, and it argues for a recalibration of both theoretical and empirical urban shrinkage literature based on advancements in the literature of planetary urbanization. Problems associated with the city-centric vision dominant within the literature of urban shrinkage or its usage mainly of demographic indicators, which also represent some of the common criticism employed within the planetary urbanization and critical urban theory, are debated for a reconsideration. Three propositions underpinned by theoretical and empirical developments in planetary urbanization are put forth: geohistorical contextualized urban shrinkage; urban shrinkage through moments of urbanization; multidimensional socio-spatial urban shrinkage.

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