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Detroit Unveils Plan for Shrinkage

Last week, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing released the much anticipated Detroit Works Project for "shrinking" the city. Reporter Nancy Kaffer says it isn't quite what everyone was expecting.
2 August 2011 - 9:00am
Crain's Detroit Business

Downsizing Detroit: How They Found the Money to Shrink, and What We Can Learn

Cities like Detroit can find the funds and initiative to make downsizing work by identifying as many stakeholders and potential partners as possible, writes Alison Bates, who thinks that "right-sizing" is the right move for the city.
9 May 2011 - 10:36am
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Consolidating Detroit

As Detroit shrinks, a team of consultants and city officials are faced with the daunting task of reforming a city that is largely full of holes.
6 April 2011 - 9:00am
The New York Times

Reasons and Options for Shrinking Cities

As cities like Detroit show major population losses in the enumeration of the 2010 Census, experts discuss why cities are shrinking on this episode of the Diane Rehm Show.
30 March 2011 - 9:00am
The Diane Rehm Show

Richard Florida Tells Cities to Stop Shrinking

Richard Florida says that shrinking is not necessarily a good idea for cities like Detroit and Cleveland that are losing population, and that it could do "more harm than good."
29 March 2011 - 1:00pm
The New York Times
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Shrinking Cities Means Shuttered Churches

The Archdiocese of Detroit is working with city planners and local demographers as they develop their plans for Catholic parish closures.
22 December 2010 - 10:00am
The Detroit News

Urban Homestead Sectors, Naturescapes, and Green Venture Zones

A group called The Community Development Advocates of Detroit (CDAD) released a report this week that breaks the city down into 11 different district types, each with their own character and policy recommendations.
27 October 2010 - 2:00pm
New Urban News Network

Applying "Smart Decline" in Vegas

Las Vegas columnist Scott Dickensheets turns to Tufts planning professor Justin Hollander to ask what Sin City should do to combat plummeting home values and draining population.
20 September 2010 - 5:00am
Las Vegas Sun

More Ways to Shrink

Drake Bennett rounds up a host of new ideas for cities like Detroit and Cleveland that are forced to consider how to manage their shrinking cities.
6 September 2010 - 7:00am
The Boston Globe

Cities Shrinking to Survive

"More cities in the developed world shrank than grew in the last three decades. More than 40 of those cities were in the United States, according to City Mayors, an urban affairs think tank," writes Gordon Young.
18 July 2010 - 7:00am
Slate Magazine

New Consensus in Detroit Behind Shrinking

The mayor, non-profits and a growing section of Detroit residents are getting behind the idea of making Detroit smaller by demolishing buildings and cutting off dead sections of the city.
21 June 2010 - 2:00pm
The New York Times

Families and Children Fleeing Cleveland

As Cleveland, Ohio has lost population over the last decade, a disproportionate number of those leaving town are families with children. Today, only 10% of the city's population is nuclear families.
11 May 2010 - 5:00am
The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Can Mass Demolitions Save Detroit?

In this video report from CNN, Detroit politicians and residents voice both opposition and support for the plan to demolish up to 3,000 abandoned homes and densify remaining housing.
30 April 2010 - 10:00am
CNN

Right-Sizing Done Right: How Planned Shrinkage Can Save Detroit

In a rebuttal to Roberta Brandes Gratz's argument against shrinking cities, planner Brian J. Connolly argues that Detroit is beyond preserving and needs to increase density by concentrating development in more limited areas and cutting off services and infrastructure to areas that are almost empty.
22 April 2010 - 5:00am
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Shrinking Cities: Urban Renewal Revisited?

The theory that shrinking ailing cities is going to cure them is unproven and wrongheaded, says Roberta Brandes Gratz -- and is fueled by the same forces behind the urban renewal practices of the mid-20th century.
19 April 2010 - 5:00am
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Solution for Shrinking Cities: Art and Parks

After unification, many East German towns began losing jobs and population. In 2003, the government formed a group to study how these cities could best recover. The results are in.
12 April 2010 - 1:00pm
Speigel International

Is My City Shrinking?

Justin B. Hollander at Tufts University looks at the increasing shrinkage of cities like Flint, Michigan and Youngstown, Ohio and the myriad strategies these cities are taking to shrink effectively.
5 April 2010 - 5:00am
Cityscape

Detroit Makes Big Hire to Aid Downsizing

Urban planning expert Toni Griffin has been recruited to help Detroit downsize and recover -- thanks to an infusion of money from a private philanthropic foundation.
19 March 2010 - 9:00am
Time

Mayor Bing Says It's Time to Downsize Detroit

"If we don't do it, you know this whole city is going to go down," said the Mayor. A new study by the mayor's staff shows that roughly one in three parcels are vacant lots or abandoned homes.
2 March 2010 - 5:00am
The Detroit News

Detroit Mayor Warms to Downsizing

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is reportedly open to the idea of downsizing the city, and is looking for other fresh ideas to help the city's economy return to a sustainable place.
15 February 2010 - 7:00am
The Detroit News
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