Dynamic Change of Urban Housing Stock, Construction and Demolition

The population of most major cities in developed countries has not increased very much in the past decade. Due to this phenomenon, these cities could be expected to become mature and stable. However, the stable condition of the population does not mean that cities have ceased to grow or change. Even those cities in which the population is declining enlarge their areas of development and change their land use patterns. The cities which we will study in developed countries do not grow rapidly, but their form changes intensively.