Nefs, Merten; Alves, Susana; Zasada, Ingo; Haase, Dagmar - In: Environment and Planning A 45 (2013) 6, pp. 1455-1473
Increasingly, policy makers and planners must develop strategies to cope with urban shrinkage. This paper proposes that active retirement migration and health tourism can be parts of such strategies. Shrinking cities, normally observed as less competitive, could develop advantages over other...