Includes index.

Acknowledgements -- W(h)ither the European shrinking city? / William J. V. Neill and Hans Schlappa -- Carry on shrinking? : the bankruptcy of urban policy in Detroit / William J. V. Neill -- Governing social cohesion in shrinking cities : the cases of Ostrava, Genoa and Leipzig / Caterina Cortese, Katrin Grossmann, Annegret Haase and Iva Ticha -- Civic engagement and development strategies : learning from the experience of participatory rural redevelopment / David Houston, Stephen McKay and Michael Murray -- The role of the social economy in the shrinking city / Brendan Murtagh -- Doing things differently : co-producing responses to urban shrinkage / Hans Schlappa -- The challenge of temporary usage in the shrinking city : a report from the "laboratory of Berlin" / Christian Porst and William J. V. Neill -- Shrinking cities and food : place-making for sustainable renewal, reuse and retrofit / Susan Parham -- Green open spaces and urban perforation : opportunities, concepts and challenges for shrinking cities / Cornelius Scherzer -- Managing brownfield land in stagnant land markets / Uwe Ferber and Hans Schlappa -- Managing service infrastructures in shrinking cities : challenges and opportunities / J�org Walther -- Coming of age : age-friendly strategies for shrinking cities / Roos Galjaard -- If not growth what then? : re-thinking the strategy process for shrinking cities / Hans Schlappa -- Conclusions: priorities for tackling shrinkage in Europe's cities / Hans Schlappa and William J. V. Neill -- Index.