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The Incredible Shrinking City

Posted by: Christian Madera

7 February 2007 - 11:00am

As many communities across Europe and the United States decrease in size, academics ponder just how to plan for for cities with declining populations.

"Scholars gather at UC Berkeley this week to ponder a trend much-studied in Europe but little-discussed in the United States: the shrinking city.

The phenomenon touches places as varied as Paris; Youngstown, Ohio; Leipzig, Germany; the Taeback Mountain region of South Korea; and parts of the San Francisco and San Jose metropolitan areas, scholars say.

Shrinkage ranges from the cyclical -- one scholar points to San Francisco, Sunnyvale and Daly City after the dot-com bust -- to the devastating, as exemplified by America's Rust Belt and industrial cities in the former East Germany."

Full Story: Scholars to consider the shrinking of cities
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle, February 7, 2007
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No matter how one wanted to organize the ideal city, housing security would be part of it. No community can function effectively if large numbers of its residents are regularly displaced or perpetually at risk of being displaced.
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