Since the early 1950s, most of the industrialized countries have gone through deindustrialization process, creating drastic changes in their social and economic conditions. Impacts of this process were most serious in the old industrial areas, which f...
Since the early 1950s, most of the industrialized countries have gone through deindustrialization process, creating drastic changes in their social and economic conditions. Impacts of this process were most serious in the old industrial areas, which functioned as core areas of the industrialization process in the past. Dortmund, Germany, was one of the core cities in the industrialized Ruhr, where social and economic turmoils were severe up until the end of 1980s. Dortmund, however, gradually recovers from its deindustrialization impacts. It, in fact, initiated many development projects to clean and redevelop urban infrastructure and regainal economic strength. This paper analyzes various urban development and economic restructuring projects that help Dortmund to recover from deindustrailization impacts.