Drawing on his decades of experience working in and writing about
shrinking cities, renowned urban policy expert and Center for Community
Progress senior fellow Alan Mallach delivers a powerful wake-up call in his new book Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World: The era of booming global population and economic growth is over, and cities everywhere will shrink as a result.


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Intro/Outro: "Smaller and Smaller," by Faith No More


Discussed:


- Bruce Sterling


- Germany and Japan's demographics


- The immigration factor


- The political time bomb of shrinking cities and left-behinders


- Networked Localism


- Remote Surgery


- Cooperation Jackson


- Renew Newcastle


- GreenStar Ithaca food co-op


- Dan Gilbert saves(?) Detroit


- Detroit Land Bank Authority


- Detroit Future City


- Dortmund Phoenix See


- Migration to the Sun Belt - what will reverse that course?


- HGTV for Shrinking Cities


- Oneonta NY


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