This policy brief showcases a solution to regenerate industrial areas through strong local cooperation, without being subordinated to public policy. This has been implemented since 2015 in Le Havre – a medium-size industrial port city on the French west coast, coping with economic restructuring and demographic decline.

Dubeaux, Cunningham Sabot, & Mykhnenko. (2020). 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Le Havre (FR) Policy Brief #1. Resilient Urban Economy & Municipal Finance. Zenodo.

This policy brief highlights the important role institutions of higher education can play in dampening the impacts of population decline. It draws on policy analysis, secondary quantitative data and stakeholder workshops to unravel necessary conditions for higher-education growth in the city. 

Hochstenbach, Cody, Bontje, Marco, & Mykhnenko, Vlad. (2020). 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Maastricht (NL) Policy Brief #1. Resilient Urban Economy & Municipal Finance. Zenodo.

This policy brief refers to the strategy of the economic development of a third largest Polish city. Łódź has solid grounds for modern development, it is a strong metropolitan, academic, and cultural centre, with a significant potential for manufacture, services, as well as research and development in the logistics, home appliance industry, and IT industry.

Ogrodowczyk, Pielesiak, Marcinczak, & Mykhnenko. (2020). 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Lodz (PL) Policy Brief #1. Resilient Urban Economy & Municipal Finance. Zenodo.

This policy brief showcases a successful resilient urban economy solution – two urban regeneration projects based on the conversion of traditional food markets into multifunctional consumption spaces centred on gourmet food courts. This brief reveals the importance of these transformations in terms of economic revitalization and the generation of (re)new(ed) urban centralities.

Sousa, Sílvia, Rodríguez-Barcón, Alberto, & Mykhnenko, Vlad. (2020). 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Porto (PT) Policy Brief #1. Resilient Urban Economy & Municipal Finance. Zenodo.

This policy brief showcases one of the successful solutions to foster urban resilience and propel sustainable development of the city of Timișoara as a growth pole of West Romania and a smart specialisation pioneer across the Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa Euro region.

Nadolu, Bogdan, Dincă, Melinda, Lucheş Daniel, Raceanu, Corina, & Mykhnenko, Vlad. (2020). 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Timisoara (RO) Policy Brief #1. Resilient Urban Economy & Municipal Finance. Zenodo.

This policy brief showcases a successful solution to rising unemployment, job-seeking out-migration, and dependence on coal mining through university-based urban regeneration. This was achieved in the early 1990s in Zonguldak – a medium-sized city in north-western Turkey, coping with deindustrialisation and demographic decline.

Özatağan, Güldem, Eraydin, Ayda, & Mykhnenko, Vlad. (2021). 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Zonguldak (TR) Policy Brief #1. Resilient Urban Economy & Municipal Finance. Zenodo.

This policy brief features a successful solution to low economic productivity through the development of a Central Business District (CBD). This was achieved in the 2010s in Stoke-on-Trent – a medium-size polycentric industrial city in central England, coping with economic restructuring and demographic decline. 

Mykhnenko, Vlad, & Badyina, Anna. (2020). 3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Stoke-on-Trent (UK) Policy Brief #1. Resilient Urban Economy & Municipal Finance. Zenodo.