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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…

More on Shrinking Cities and Help for Land Banks

By | 04.23.09 | 9:13 am

Over at Hungry Hungry Hippos. they’ve taken me to task for my post Wednesday on efforts in Flint, Mich. to deal with abandoned and vacant properties by literally shrinking the size of their city — cordoning off the blight and leaving it behind. I had written that Flint More…