E. Cunningham-sabot and S. Fol, New dwellings per 1000 inhabitants in some Polish cities compared with all Polish cities during 1990-2016. Source: Authors' compilation based on CSO data References Audirac, I, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol.36, pp.226-244, 2012.

J. Ba?ski and M. Ferenc, International" or "Anglo-American" journals of geography?, Geoforum, vol.45, pp.285-293, 2013.

C. Bayou and É. Bouhris, Les Lettons, 2017.

V. Béal, S. Fol, Y. Miot, and M. Rousseau, Varieties of right-sizing strategies: Comparing degrowth coalitions in French shrinking cities, 2017.

R. A. Beauregard, Urban population loss in historical perspective: United States, 1820-2000. Environment and Planning A, vol.41, pp.514-528, 2009.

M. Bernt, Partnerships for demolition: The governance of urban renewal in east German shrinking cities, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol.33, pp.754-769, 2009.

D. Botterill and V. Platenkamp, Key concepts in tourism research, 2012.

E. Brainerd, The demographic transformation of post-socialist countries: Causes, consequences, and questions, Economies in transition. Studies in development economics and policy, pp.57-83, 2012.

M. Cirtautas, Urban sprawl of major cities in the Baltic states, Architecture and Planning, vol.7, pp.72-79, 2013.

L. Coudroy-de-lille, Le logement en République populaire de Pologne: du "déficit" à la "crise, Le Mouvement Social, vol.4, issue.245, pp.109-122, 2013.

L. Coudroy-de-lille and A. Wolaniuk, ?ód?, ou les ressources territoriales d'une stratégie métropolitaine, Géocarrefour, vol.80, pp.35-48, 2005.

E. Cunningham-sabot, S. Fol, K. In, J. Pallagst, I. Aber et al., The future of shrinking cities-Problems, patterns and strategies of urban transformation in a global context, California: Center for Global Metropolitan Studies, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, and the Shrinking Cities International Research Networks, pp.17-27, 2009.

J. Dzieciuchowicz and L. Groeger, Nowa przestrze? mieszkaniowa: Lofty i rezydencje w ?odzi, 2016.

M. Geshkov, Urban sprawl in eastern Europe: The Sofia City example, Economic Alternatives, vol.2, pp.101-116, 2015.

L. Groeger, Struktura przestrzenna obszarów najwy?ej preferowanych na miejsce zamieszkania w ?odzi, Wspó?czesne formy osadnictwa miejskiego i ich przemiany, pp.91-98, 2002.

E. Guba and Y. S. Lincoln, Fourth generation evaluation, 1989.

D. Haase, Beyond growth? Decline of the urban fabric in Eastern Germany: A spatially explicit model approach to predict residential vacancy and demolition priorities, Modelling land-use change, pp.339-353, 2006.

A. Haase, M. Bernt, K. Grossmann, V. Mykhnenko, and D. Rink, Varieties of shrinkage in European cities, European Urban and Regional Studies, vol.12, pp.1-17, 2013.

A. Haase, D. Rink, K. Grossmann, M. Bernt, and V. Mykhnenko, The concept of urban shrinkage, Environment Planning A, vol.46, issue.7, pp.1519-1534, 2014.

A. Haase, M. Bernt, K. Grossmann, V. Mykhnenko, and D. Rink, Varieties of shrinkage in European cities, European Urban and Regional Studies, vol.23, issue.1, pp.86-102, 2016.

A. Haase, D. Rink, and K. Grossman, Shrinking cities in post-socialist Europe: What can we learn from their analysis for theory building today, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, vol.98, pp.305-319, 2016.

F. Hager and W. Schenkel, , 2003.

A. Holm, S. Marci?czak, and A. Ogrodowczyk, New-build gentrification in the post-socialist city: ?ód? and Leipzig two decades after socialism, Geografie-Sborník ?GSR, vol.120, issue.2, pp.164-187, 2015.

K. O. Hondrich, Weniger sind mehr: Warum der Geburtenrückgang ein Glücksfall für unsere Gesellschaft ist, 2007.

J. Jakóbczyk-gryszkiewicz, Demographic characteristic of ?ód?, A comparative study of ?ód? and Manchester, pp.111-124, 1997.

S. Kabisch, A. Steinfurer, A. Haase, K. Grossmann, A. Peter et al., Demographic change and housing in European cities, 2008.

N. Kabisch, D. Haase, and A. Haase, Urban population development in Europe 1991-2008. The examples of Poland and the UK, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol.36, pp.1326-1348, 2012.

S. Kaczmarek, J. Kazimierczak, L. Coudroy-de-lille, and L. Mongeard, Demolowanie terenów miejskich: synergia w badaniach geograficznych w Polsce i we Francji, Geografia. Wspólne idee, wspólne wizje. Sto lat wspó?pracy polsko-francuskiej, pp.97-114, 2018.

J. Kazimierczak, Wp?yw rewitalizacji terenów poprzemys?owych na organizacj? przestrzeni centralnej w Manchesterze, Lyonie i ?odzi, 2014.

J. Kazimierczak, Kszta?towanie przestrzeni publicznej miasta w kontek?cie rewitalizacji terenów poprzemys?owych w Manchesterze, Lyonie i ?odzi, Studia Miejskie, vol.16, pp.115-128, 2014.

J. Kazimierczak, Revitalization and its impact on public space organization: A case study of Manchester in UK, Lyon in France and ?ód? in Poland, TeMa Journal of Land Use Mobility and Environment-Smart Cities: Planning for Energy, Transportation and Sustainability of the Urban System, Special Issue, pp.545-556, 2014.

J. Kazimierczak and P. Kosmowski, In the shadow of urban regeneration megaproject: Urban transitions of downtown in ?ód?, Poland. Urban Development Issues, vol.56, issue.4, pp.39-50, 2017.

M. M. Kennedy, Generalizing from single case studies, Evaluation Quarterly, vol.3, pp.661-678, 1976.
DOI : 10.1177/0193841x7900300409

W. Kil, Luxus der Leere. Vom schwierigen Rückzug aus der Wachstumswelt, 2004.

Z. Kovács, Cities from state-socialism to global capitalism: An introduction, GeoJournal, vol.40, pp.1-6, 1999.

R. Krzysztofik, M. Dymitrov, R. Szmytkie, I. Kantor-pietraga, J. Pe?ka-go?ciniak et al., Environmental hazards and urban abandonment: Case studies and typological issues, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, vol.97, issue.4, pp.291-308, 2015.
DOI : 10.1111/geob.12082

F. Kubiczek, Terytorium [History of Poland in numbers, 1994.

R. Lesthaeghe and D. J. Van-de-kaa, Twee demografische transities?, Bevolking: Groei en Kremp, pp.9-24, 1986.

S. Liszewski, ?ód?: A monograph of the city, 2009.

C. Martinez-fernandez, T. Weyman, S. Fol, I. Audirac, E. Cunningham-sabot et al., Shrinking cities in Australia, Japan, Europe and the USA: From a global process to local policy responses, Progress in Planning, vol.105, pp.1-48, 2016.

C. Mladenov, E. Dimitrov, and B. Kazakov, Demographical development of Bulgaria during the transitional period, Méditerranée, vol.110, pp.117-124, 2008.
DOI : 10.4000/mediterranee.550
URL : http://journals.openedition.org/mediterranee/pdf/550

V. Mykhnenko and I. Turok, East European cities-Patterns of growth and decline, International Planning Studies, vol.13, pp.311-342, 1960.
DOI : 10.1080/13563470802518958

, Future directions for the European shrinking city, 2016.

P. Oswalt and T. Rieniets, Atlas of shrinking cities, 2006.

A. Radzimski, Changing policy responses to shrinkage: The case of dealing with housing vacancies in Eastern Germany, Cities, vol.50, pp.197-205, 2016.

D. Reckien and C. Martinez-fernandez, Why do cities shrink? European Planning Studies, vol.9, pp.1375-1397, 2011.

J. Robinson, Ordinary cities: Between modernity and development, Les villes rétrécissantes en Allemagne. Géocarrefour, vol.88, pp.75-80, 2006.

M. Salamon and A. Muzio?-w?c?awowicz, Mieszkalnictwo w Polsce. Analiza niektórych obszarów polityki mieszkaniowj. Warsaw: Habitat for Humanity, 2015.

L. Schatz, What helps or hinders the adoption of "good planning" principles in shrinking cities? A comparison of recent planning exercises in Sudbury, 2010.

Ö. Sjöberg, Cases onto themselves? Theory and research on ex-socialist urban environments, Geografie, vol.119, issue.4, pp.299-319, 2014.

P. ?pa?ková, N. Dvo?ácková, and M. Tobrmanová, Residential satisfaction and intention to move: the case of Prague's new suburbanities, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, vol.98, issue.4, pp.331-348, 2016.

R. E. Stake, Case studies, Strategies of qualitative inquiry, pp.86-109, 1998.

K. Stanilov, The post-socialist city: Urban form and space transformations in central and eastern Europe after socialism, 2007.

R. Struyk, Introduction, Homeownership and housing finance policy in the former Soviet Bloc: Costly populism (pp. vii-xiii), 2000.

T. Stryjakiewicz, P. Ciesió?ka, and E. Jaroszewska, Urban shrinkage and the post-socialist transformation: The case of Poland, Built Environment, vol.38, pp.197-213, 2012.

T. Stryjakiewicz, The process of urban shrinkage and its consequences, Romanian Journal of Regional Science, Special Issue on New Urban World, vol.7, pp.29-40, 2013.

T. Stryjakiewicz and E. Jaroszewska, Kurczenie si? miast w Polsce, Kurczenie si? miast w Europie ?rodkowo-Wschodniej, pp.67-77, 2014.

E. Szafra?ska, Kapita? ludzki i spo?eczny w przestrzeni miasta. Przyk?ad ?odzi, Mechanizmy i uwarunkowania budowania konkurencyjno?ci miast, 2008.

E. Szafra?ska, Large housing estates in post-socialist Poland as a housing policy challenge, European Spatial Research and Policy, vol.20, pp.119-129, 2013.

E. Szafra?ska, Transformations of large housing estates in post-socialist city: The case of, Geographia Polonica, vol.87, pp.77-94, 2014.

E. Szafra?ska, Residential attractiveness of the inner city of Lodz in the opinions of city inhabitants, Studia Regionalia, vol.45, pp.8-21, 2016.

E. Szafra?ska and M. Mularska-kucharek, Selected aspects of the quality of life of the inhabitants of large housing estates in Lodz. Socio-Spatial Context, Studia Regionalia, vol.45, pp.60-78, 2016.

P. Szukalski, Sytuacja demograficzna ?odzi. ?ód?: Wydawnictwo Biblioteka, 2012.

W. M. Tellis, Introduction to case study, The Qualitative Report, vol.3, pp.1-14, 1997.

J. Temelová, J. Novák, A. Kährik, and T. Tammaru, Neighborhood trajectories in the inner cities of Prague and Tallin: What affects the speed of social and demographic change, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, vol.98, issue.4, pp.349-366, 2016.

S. Tsenkova, Housing in transition and the transition in housing: Experiences of Central and Eastern Europe, 2000.

I. Turok and V. Mykhnenko, The trajectories of European cities, Cities, vol.24, issue.3, pp.165-182, 1960.

I. Turok and V. Mykhnenko, East European cities-Patterns of growth and decline, International Planning Studies, vol.13, pp.311-342, 1960.

W. Warzywoda-kruszy?ska and J. Grotowska-leder, Lokalna polityka wobec biedy i pomocy spo?ecznej, 2003.

G. W?c?awowicz, Geografia spo?eczna miast. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2007.

T. Wiechmann, Conversion strategies under uncertainty in post-socialist shrinking cities-The example of Dresden in Eastern Germany, pp.5-16, 2009.

T. Wiechmann and M. Bontje, Responding to tough times: Policy and planning strategies in shrinking cities, European Planning Studies, vol.23, pp.1-11, 2015.

T. Wiechmann and K. M. Pallagst, Urban shrinkage in Germany and the USA: A comparison of transformation patterns and local strategies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol.36, pp.261-280, 2012.

A. Wojnarowska, Rewitalizacja zdegradowanych obszarów miejskich. Zagadnienia teoretyczne, 2011.

M. Wójcik and P. Tobiasz-lis, Ocena przestrzennych dysproporcji w ?odzi z perspektywy mieszka?ców miasta, Dysproporcje spo?eczne i gospodarcze w przestrzeni ?odzi. Czynniki, mechanizmy, skutki, pp.305-320, 2014.

D. J. Van-de-kaa, The idea of a second demographic transition in industrialized countries, Japanese Journal of Population, vol.1, pp.42-75, 2003.

R. K. Yin, Case study research: Design and methods, 2014.

Z. Ziobrowski and B. Doma?ski, Rewitalizacja miast polskich jako sposób zachowania dziedzictwa materialnego i duchowego oraz czynnik zrównowa?onego rozwoju, 2010.

, Act on Regeneration, Journal of Laws, vol.1777, p.1250, 2015.

, Central Statistical Office in Poland City of ?ód? CSO Gminny Program Rewitalizacji: Program Rewitalizacji ?odzi 2026+ (2016) Polityka mieszkaniowa ?odzi 2020+ (2012) ?ód? City Council ?ód? in figures, 1978.

, Statistical Office in ?ód?