Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Fostering Resilient Cities in Inner Peripheries of Europe, 2017-2020

Mykhnenko, Vlad and Bontje, Marco and Clarke, Susan and Lee, Peter and Cunningham Sabot, Emmanuele and Marcinczak, Szymon and Sousa, Silvia Avila de and Nadolu, Bogdan and Raceanu, Corina and Badyina, Anna and Pielesiak, Iwona and Ogrodowczyk, Agnieszka and Dinca, Melinda and Luches, Daniel and Hochstenbach, Cody and Dubeaux, Sarah and Rodriguez Barcon, Alberto and Ozatagan, Guldem and Eraydin, Ayda and Hunt, Dexter and Tight, Miles and Rogers, Christopher and Bartosiewicz, Bartosz and Tranos, Emmanouil (2021). Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Fostering Resilient Cities in Inner Peripheries of Europe, 2017-2020. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Service. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-854628

Smart Shrinkage Solutions - Fostering Resilient Cities in Inner Peripheries of Europe (3S RECIPE) offers the best practice and most feasible solutions to the problem of urban shrinkage - a continuous population decline affecting more than 1,500 cities all over Europe. By learning from the experience of the cities that once were on the edge of an abyss but have bounced back to life, by sharing the key ingredients of their success across Europe and beyond, this project enables as many shrinking cities as possible to adapt, transform, and thrive in the face of continuously and often dramatically changing circumstances.

Data description (abstract)

The 3S RECIPE data collection provides the research and policy audience with clear, tried, and tested city examples of how to 1) tackle the key socio-economic causes of urban shrinkage, 2) future-proof sustainability actions in urban redevelopment and regeneration, and 3) enhance the role of long-term strategic planning. The core data collection is comprised of 22 original research outputs in the form of policy briefs, revealing a series of smart shrinkage solutions implemented during the period 2000-2020 in 7 cities across Europe, including Le Havre (France), Maastricht (Netherlands), Łódź (Poland), Porto (Portugal), Stoke-on-Trent (UK), Timișoara (Romania), and Zonguldak (Turkey). Research findings are presented in the form of textual narrative with maps, photographs, figures, charts, and tables in PDF format. In addition, this data collection contains the project's key background materials, detailed workshop notes, work package reports, and links to the original creative artwork produced to make the research outputs publically accessible in the form of short video films, hosted by YouTube as well as the 3S RECIPE project's website.

Data creators:

Creator Name	Affiliation	ORCID (as URL)
Mykhnenko Vlad	University of Oxford	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8944-0608
Bontje Marco	University of Amsterdam	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8326-9528
Clarke Susan	B Arts Ltd
Lee Peter	University of Birmingham
Cunningham Sabot Emmanuele	Ecole Normale Superieure - Universite PSL	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2946-9166
Marcinczak Szymon	Lodz University	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5548-5816
Sousa Silvia Avila de	University of Porto	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3825-5389
Nadolu Bogdan	West University of Timisoara	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4268-3917
Raceanu Corina	Intercultural Institute Timisoara
Badyina Anna	University of Oxford
Pielesiak Iwona	Lodz UNiversity	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8396-8230
Ogrodowczyk Agnieszka	Lodz UNiversity	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1130-8962
Dinca Melinda	West University of Timisoara	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1073-9162
Luches Daniel	West University of Timisoara	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5253-8748
Hochstenbach Cody	University of Amsterdam	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9030-9102
Dubeaux Sarah	Ecole Normale Superieure - Universite PSL
Rodriguez Barcon Alberto	University of Porto	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9266-3199
Ozatagan Guldem	Independent
Eraydin Ayda	Middle East Technical University	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7978-4869
Hunt Dexter	University of Birmingham	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3621-7215
Tight Miles	University of Birmingham	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6635-8721
Rogers Christopher	University of Birmingham	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1693-1999
Bartosiewicz Bartosz	Lodz UNiversity	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8745-5910
Tranos Emmanouil	University of Bristol	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9620-6542

Sponsors:

Economic and Social Research Council

Grant reference:

ES/R000352/1

Topic classification:

Housing and land use
Economics
Demography (population, vital statistics and censuses)

Keywords:

URBAN REGENERATION, RESILIENCE, POLICY EVALUATION, FUTURES STUDIES

Project title:

JPI Urban Europe ENSUF Smart Shrinkage Solutions - Fostering Resilient Cities in Inner Peripheries of Europe (3S RECIPE)

Alternative title:

3S RECIPE

Grant holders:

Vlad Mykhnenko

Project dates:

From	To
31 March 2017	31 October 2020

Date published:

21 May 2021 17:24

Last modified:

21 May 2021 17:24

Coverage and Methodology

Temporal coverage:

From	To
1 January 2000	31 January 2020

Collection period:

Date from:	Date to:
31 March 2017	31 January 2020

Geographical area:

Le Havre. Maastricht. Lodz. Porto. Stoke-on-Trent. Timisoara. Zonguldak.

Country:

France, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Romania, Turkey

Spatial unit:

European Union Geographies > NUTS-IV Areas

Data collection method:

The project has followed the Urban Futures Method (for details, see Designing Resilient Cities: a Guide to Good Practice, 2012 http://designingresilientcities.co.uk/) to collect the data, stress-test, and future-proof public-sector interventions or private-sector solutions to challenge of urban shrinkage. The sampling procedure involved an invitation for contact sent to all relevant local stakeholders and/or advertised via the social media in the 7 cities concerned, who have had the knowledge and experience of their city's initiatives, interventions, projects, solutions of urban problems in the fields of Work Package 1 'Resilient Urban Economy & Municipal Finance,' Work Package 2 'Compact Connected City,' and Work Package 2 'Liveability'. 1) Workshops (under the Chatham House Rule) with local stakeholders in 7 cities carried out during the project's period 2017-2020, including Le Havre (France), Maastricht (Netherlands), Łódź (Poland), Porto (Portugal), Stoke-on-Trent (UK), Timișoara (Romania), and Zonguldak (Turkey). 2) Secondary socio-economic quantitative data collected from national statistical services in 7 countries. 3) Official local/regional government documents, decisions, policies, annual statements, budgets. 4) Mass-media coverage of relevant topics covering the 7 cities concerned. 5) Photographs and images created during fieldwork in the 7 cities concerned.

Observation unit:

Individual, Organization, Event/Process, Geographic unit, Time unit, Object

Kind of data:

Numeric, Text, Still image, Audio, Video

Type of data:

Historical data, Qualitative and mixed methods data, Time series data

Resource language:

English, French

Access and Administration