The Incredible Shrinking City

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

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February 7, 2007, 11:00 AM PST

By Christian Madera @http://www.twitter.com/cpmadera

"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

Wednesday, February 7, 2007 in The San Francisco Chronicle

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