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