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Shrinking Cities on the Web

www.shrinkingcities.com/

Shrinking Cities is a project of the German Federal Cultural Foundation under the direction of Philipp Oswalt and in cooperation with the Project office Philipp Oswalt, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, and magazine archplus. There's a lot of material here, most of it in both English and German.

http://www.mocadetroit.org/exhibitions/shrinkingcities.html

http://www.cranbrookart.edu/museum/shrinkingcities.html

Sites of the Detroit version of the exhibit

http://www.shrinkingcities.com/newyork.0.html?&L=1

The New York Version

http://www-iurd.ced.berkeley.edu/scg/

The "Shrinking Cities Group" at the Institute for Urban and Regional Development at Berkeley - includes case studies and other resources

http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1907

Metropolis Magazine article on Youngstown and the CUDC's 2005 charrette

http://www.urbancartography.com/2005/08/shrinking_citie.html

Links to blogs that deal with shrinking city issues

http://www.smartcityradio.com/smartcityradio/coming_up.cfm?showsmartcityID=328

A web radio program including a participant in our upcoming symposium

http://www.thedetroiter.com/DEC03/shrinkingcities.html

Reflections on Detroit

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewPaper&id=334

From the Wharton School at Penn, a paper on real estate issues in shrinking cities.

http://www.holcimfoundation.org/media/publications/firstforum/for_wk3.pdf

A brief working paper outlining the challenges of urban shrinkage