Shrinking Cities in Reunified East Germany

The book explores the relationship between the shrinking process and architecture and urban design practices. Starting from a journey in former East Germany, six different scenes are explored in which plans, projects, and policies have dealt with shrinkage since the 1990s.

Agim Kërçuku is an architect and urbanist, has a PhD in Urbanism at the Universita IUAV di Venezia. Since December 2018, he has been a research fellow at the DAStU Excellence Department of the Politecnico di Milano. Research activity focuses on the dimension of fragility in the regions marked by dynamics of shrinking and marginalisation and on the spatial implications of the phenomenon of population ageing. He edited the publication of Territory in crisis. Architecture and Urbanism Facing Changes in Europe (Jovis, 2015, with other authors), Tensioni Urbane, Ricerche sulla citta che cambia (LetteraVentidue, 2017, with other authors), Spatial Tensions in Urban Design (Springer, 2021, with other authors), and contributed to national and international publications.