While Schwerin has earned many names since Henry the Lion formally declared it a city in 1164—like ‘the city of seven lakes and forests’, ‘Germany’s smallest state capital’, and ‘Florence of the North’, just to name a few—shrinking city is not necessarily one of them. However, as the saying goes, one shouldn’t judge a city solely by its cover.
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Perspective through paradoxes: a visit to Zwickau
by Ruiying Liu, ESR at the Technical University of Dortmund Cities are collages of places, with not one but many places and genii loci (spirits of place) — a general rule for big cities, but especially essential to the East German city Zwickau, the destination of my fieldtrip. Although strictly it is no longer a …
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RE-CITY: Reviving Shrinking Cities 