Economic Recession and Urban Decline

o Seattle, USA
Seattle Times reports shops in downtown Sattle struggle as economic recession forces many shops to close. Here is the issue of urban decline - temporal decline vs. long-term deline. As every cities face the economic downturn all the time, the issue might be which decline is real decline. In other words, what defines the urban decline . . time peirod, structural causes . . .

o Atami, Japan