MONITORING, MAPPING AND MODELLING URBAN DECLINE: A MULTI-SCALE APPROACH FOR LEIPZIG, GERMANY

Abstract

Urban remote sensing research and approaches to modelling residential mobility focus predominantly on growth patterns. In this paper, the phenomenon of extreme urban decline, named ‘shrinkage’, is scrutinised. The different characteristics of urban decline are illuminated using a multi-scale approach. Selected patterns of the spatial growth and shrinkage are first calculated by