HUANG Shen, DING Meichen, SUN Yiqiao, SHEN Guoqiang

Keywords： Shrinking City; Small and Medium-sized City; Industrial City; Planning Strategy; The United States

Abstract：

Urban shrinkage is a global multi-dimensional phenomenon, that some small and medium-sized cities in China have contracted now. To change the concept and paradigm of urban planning to cope with urban shrinkage is one of the important research directions for high-quality development of cities. This paper selects five small and medium-sized US industrial cities in the central northeast region that have encountered with shrinking populations after 1960 as the study objects. We sort out the evolution of their planning strategies, and analyze their evolution characteristics in three aspects: value orientation, development paradigm and implementation mode. In addition, an empirical analysis was conducted on three of them, Flint, South Bend and Evansville, to compare the differences in urban revitalization paths under the same goal, and to analyze the reasons for the success or failure of the three urban planning strategies. This paper therefore provides an empirical enlightenment for the planning strategy on the shrinking small and medium-sized industrial cities in China.

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