Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained
economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael …

Urban shrinkage is not a new phenomenon. It has been documented in a large literature
analyzing the social and economic issues that have led to population flight, resulting, in the …

Shrinking cities can be considered as one of the most critical challenges of contemporary
urban societies. Recently, this phenomenon has been the subject of growing interest both in …

Agglomeration economies are a fundamental explanation for the existence of cities. Spatial
clustering allows for a variety of external benefits such as labor pooling, sharing of suppliers …

The resurgence of big, old cities and their regions is real, but it is merely a part of a broader
pattern of urban change in the developed countries, whose broadest tendency is urban …

Employing an historical perspective, the author mounts a quantitative and theoretical
assessment of population loss in the large cities of the United States. Three periods are …

Abstract This study of African-American consumers living in a large racially segregated
midwestern city adds to extant theory on ideology in consumer behavior by considering the …

At the beginning of the 21st century, the majority of Europe's cities experienced a population
decrease. Dealing with the results of demographic, economic and physical contraction …

Land abandonment is one of the most challenging planning problems facing shrinking cities
in the United States. Most abandoned urban land finds its way into the tax foreclosure …

The smart growth movement of the 1990s has seen many development and planning
associations, state and local governments, and the Clinton administration encourage …