Shrinking Cities Movement Enters Debate in Flint Mayoral Campaign

Our sister site, The Michigan Messenger, points out that the shrinking cities movement – an urban development approach that has drawn national attention to Flint, Mich. — is becoming an issue in the local mayoral race.

The movement calls for communities to cordon off mostly vacant areas, cut More…

Shrinking Cities Across the Pond

For a while now at TWI, we’ve been keeping and eye on developments in the shrinking cities movement. It’s a new idea for urban development, aimed at saving cities by making them smaller: Cordoning off the sections that are abandoned and marred by blight, urging the few people left More…