Urban shrinkage in a neo-liberal space

Abstract

This study focuses on this fact that shrinking cities are the other side of changes in a liberal space. They occur as a result of the uneven performance of neo-liberalism in urban and regional developments. This uneven performance in development is due to the competitive spaces between the processes of production and accumulation. In addition, since neo-liberalism always needs to impose its own institutional array and market-oriented social and spatial norms on a city and a region, an explanation of the process of urban shrinkage in a liberal space is placed within a neo-liberalism creative destruction mechanism. © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.