Smaller cities in a shrinking world : learning to thrive without growth /

"In Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World, urban policy expert Alan Mallach seeks to understand how declining population and economic growth, coupled with the other forces that will influence their fates, particularly climate change, will affect the world's cities over the coming decades. What will it...

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Main Author:	Mallach, Alan (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC : Island Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Urban renewal > United States. City planning > United States. Community development, Urban > United States. Urban policy > United States. City planning. Community development, Urban. Urban policy. Urban renewal. United States.
Summary:	"In Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World, urban policy expert Alan Mallach seeks to understand how declining population and economic growth, coupled with the other forces that will influence their fates, particularly climate change, will affect the world's cities over the coming decades. What will it mean to have a world full of shrinking cities? Does it mean that they are doomed to decline in more ways than simply population numbers, or can we uncouple population decline from economic decay, abandoned buildings and impoverishment?"--