Cities in Europe and Central Asia : A Shifting Story of Urban Growth and Decline
皇冠体育app report is based on a unique city-level database that covers more than 5,000 cities in the region
Abstract
This report is organized in 4 sections:
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Section 1 provides an overview of the context in which many ECA cities consolidated. This section includes a review of the key factors that shaped the urban systems of ECA, including a discussion of the implication of urbanizing under planned economies and a discussion of recent demographic trends (migration and fertility). This section also includes an overview of the contribution of the urban sector to ECA鈥檚 economy and the linkages between urbanization and economic development.
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Section 2 zooms into ECA鈥檚 urban systems and describes emerging trends in population and economic density using the Cities in ECA database. Among the observed trends, is the emergence of two opposing patterns in ECA鈥檚 urban system: one of (population) growth and one of decline.
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Section 3 takes a closer look at cities, comparing winners to losers, and parses through underlying factors that could explain their relative position.
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Section 4 touches on the policy implications of the report鈥檚 empirical findings, highlighting how other countries and cities have managed decline and identifies potential follow-up work.
皇冠体育app report is based on a unique city-level database that covers more than 5,000 cities in the region. 皇冠体育app report does not intend to provide country specific or in-depthassessment at the sub-regional level, does not cover other angles of interest (firm-level analysis, household-level analysis) or provide an in-depth analysis of policy implications. 皇冠体育appse are both limitations, and potential follow-up activities. However, the report is complemented by 17 country-level snapshots, which describe in detail country specific trends.
This paper is a part of a Global Research Program on Spatial Development of Cities, funded by the Multi Donor Trust Fund on Sustainable Urbanization of the World Bank and supported by the UK Department for International Development
Citation
Zhukova, Sofia; Restrepo Cadavid, Paula; Cineas, Grace; Quintero, Luis E. 2017. Cities in Europe and Central Asia : A Shifting Story of Urban Growth and Decline. World Bank, Washington, DC. 漏 World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/28972 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.