Shrinking cities

Shrinking cities

This article concerns the decline of city populations in some locations. Contrary to the familiar industrial image of "boomtowns", the size of some cities has declined, despite a growth in world population. Cities shrink when economic investment moves elsewhere in the world or when governmental policy creates a cycle of disinvestment. (See "redlining") Although seldom referred to, the decline of cities is a general pattern of our civilization. Surprisingly, the number of shrinking cities has increased faster in the last 50 years than the number of expanding ones.Fact|date=February 2007

Global context

The current population of the world is 6.5 billion people. Currently about 3 billion live in cities. The expected growth by 2030 in cities is expected to be 4.1 billion.Fact|date=July 2007

In the last 50 years, about 370 cities with more than 100,000 residents have undergone population losses of more than 10%. More than 25 percent of the depopulating cities are in the United States, and most of those are in the midwest.Fact|date=July 2007

List of shrinking cities

The following cities have lost at least 20 percent of their population, from a peak of over 100,000, since 1950.

United States

See also

*Urban decay
*Rust belt

External links

* [http://www.shrinkingcities.com/globaler_kontext.0.html?&L=1 Shrinking Cities Exhibition]
* [http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=5718 Shrinking Cities in USA]
* [http://www.erasmuspc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=291&Itemid=32 Interview with German expert Wolfgang Kil on Shrinking Cities in Germany]


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