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"zwijanie się"

English translation: shrinking

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Polish term or phrase:"zwijanie się"
English translation:shrinking
Entered by: Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.

11:08 Jan 26, 2015
Polish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
Polish term or phrase: "zwijanie się"
"(...) część miast poddawana jest procesowi odwrotnemu – degradacji, wyludnianiu, „zwijaniu się” (pokazują to dobitnie niektóre miasta Ameryki w wyniku kryzysu, który zaczął się w 2008 roku)."
mjustyna
Poland
shrinking
Explanation:
Many US cities are shrinking.

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Note added at 31 mins (2015-01-26 11:40:26 GMT)
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Detroit's bankruptcy can in part be traced to the loss of more than a million residents. So how have other "shrinking" US cities coped?
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23383361
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Website dedicated to the shrinking of Detroit.
http://www.shrinkingcities.com/detroit.0.html
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Detroit itself, however, is still shrinking. It's down 10,000 people from the previous year, with just under 689,000 people now.
http://michiganradio.org/post/yes-detroit-still-shrinking-mu...


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Shrinking cities are dense cities that have experienced notable population loss. Emigration (migration from a place) is a common reason for city shrinkage. Since the infrastructure of such cities was built to support a larger population, its maintenance can become a serious concern. A related phenomenon is counter urbanization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinking_cities

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Note added at 7 hrs (2015-01-26 18:46:23 GMT)
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For completeness, let me list here "involution:"

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, survey and historical data, Loïc Wacquant shows that the involution of America's urban core after the 1960s is due not to the emergence of an 'underclass', but to the joint withdrawal of market and state fostered by public policies of racial separation and urban abandonment

http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745631257
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Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
United States
Local time: 11:27
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4 +4shrinking
Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
4 +2dwindling
Polangmar
4rescaling
Weronika Kloc-Nowak


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
dwindling


Explanation:


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Note added at 7 mins (2015-01-26 11:16:03 GMT)
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Fading Legacy: The Dwindling of America's Small Towns...
Faced with the possible dwindling of the town and its eclipse by the new towns...
He said losing those vital assets will lead to a dwindling of the towns and communities...
http://tinyurl.com/mbfap5e

Polangmar
Poland
Local time: 17:27
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 105

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Darius Saczuk
2 hrs
agree  Jacek Konopka
2 hrs
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
rescaling


Explanation:
Although the directino of such rescaling is not explicit, the term is used quite often in this context.


    Reference: http://www.amazon.com/Locating-Migration-Rescaling-Cities-Mi...
Weronika Kloc-Nowak
Poland
Local time: 17:27
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
shrinking


Explanation:
Many US cities are shrinking.

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Note added at 31 mins (2015-01-26 11:40:26 GMT)
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Detroit's bankruptcy can in part be traced to the loss of more than a million residents. So how have other "shrinking" US cities coped?
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23383361
cccccccccccc
Website dedicated to the shrinking of Detroit.
http://www.shrinkingcities.com/detroit.0.html
cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc

Detroit itself, however, is still shrinking. It's down 10,000 people from the previous year, with just under 689,000 people now.
http://michiganradio.org/post/yes-detroit-still-shrinking-mu...


ccccccccccc
Shrinking cities are dense cities that have experienced notable population loss. Emigration (migration from a place) is a common reason for city shrinkage. Since the infrastructure of such cities was built to support a larger population, its maintenance can become a serious concern. A related phenomenon is counter urbanization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinking_cities

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Note added at 7 hrs (2015-01-26 18:46:23 GMT)
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,,,,,,,,,,,,

For completeness, let me list here "involution:"

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, survey and historical data, Loïc Wacquant shows that the involution of America's urban core after the 1960s is due not to the emergence of an 'underclass', but to the joint withdrawal of market and state fostered by public policies of racial separation and urban abandonment

http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745631257

Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
United States
Local time: 11:27
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 346
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Darius Saczuk
1 hr
  -> Thank you, Dariusz, for your valued support.
agree  Jacek Konopka
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, Jacek. Have a great day, mate.
agree  Jacek Kloskowski: Yes, definitely
4 hrs
  -> My regards, Jacek.
agree  George BuLah (X)
7 hrs
  -> Great thanks, George.
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