Preface
Steve Rugare

Shrinking Cities: Planning Challenges from an International Perspective
Karina Pallagst

Strategic Flexibility beyond Growth and Shrinkage: Lessons from Dresden, Germany
Thorsten Wiechmann

Buffalo as a Living Laboratory for Reclaiming Vacant Properties
Joseph Schilling

IMPROVE YOUR LOT!
Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca and Georgeen Theodore

CAID Charrette—Detroit
Sean Burkholder, Steve Rugare, Paul Vernon and CUDC students

The Cleveland Land Lab: Experiments for a City in Transition
Terry Schwarz

Defining the Urban-Agrarian Space
Brad Masi

Cities Growing Smaller

Steve Rugare and Terry Schwarz, editors

published by Kent State’s
Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative
Christopher Diehl, AIA, Director

with major support from
The George Gund Foundation