The Patterns of Depopulation in Timişoara – Research Note

The shrinking phenomenon represents a natural trend into the evolution of an urban community. Usually it comes together with economical decline, unemployment, house vacancy, perforation of the urban grid, local budget decreasing and so on. Timisoara has loosed around 14% of population in almost 2 decades. Can be this considerate a signal for the shrinking process? This paper is based on the partial results of the project FP7 no.225193 “ShrinkSmart – The Governance of the Shrinkage into the European Context”, financed by European Commission, Theme 8 Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities 2009-2012 (http://www.shrinksmart.ufz.de/). West University of Timisoara is partner into the consortium of this project, together with 7 other European Universities. The team from West University of Timisoara is composed from Melinda Dincă, Dan Lucheş, Delia Nadolu and Bogdan Nadolu (the coordonator).