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:
- Germany and Japan's demographics
- The immigration factor
- The political time bomb of shrinking cities and left-behinders
- Networked Localism
- Remote Surgery
- Dan Gilbert saves(?) Detroit
- Migration to the Sun Belt - what will reverse that course?
- HGTV for Shrinking Cities
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Listen On
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