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More Shrinking Cities: Desperate Towns Move to ‘Disincorporate’

By | 05.27.09 | 9:39 am

In Flint, Mich. and some other troubled communities fighting against an onslaught of abandoned and vacant properties, the latest survival tactic is to “shrink” the city. As we noted recently, the shrinking cities movement involves cutting off desolate areas from city services, urging anyone who still lives there to More…