Introduction: The End of Growth
1. The Past, Present, and Future Shrinking City: A Historical Overview
2. Demography as Destiny: Beyond the Demographic Transition
3. A Restless Species: Migration and the Fate of Cities
4. Land and Buildings in the Shrinking City: Households, Vacant Properties, and the Urban Prairie
5. Social and Economic Conditions in the Shrinking City: The Effects of Population Decline
6. A Difficult Future: Three Global Challenges for the World’s Shrinking Cities
7. Embracing the End of Growth: Rethinking Cities in a Shrinking World
8. Thinner, Greener Cities: Greening the Urban Environment
9. Cities are People: Building a Sustainable Social and Economic Environment
10. The Future of American Shrinking Cities: Can the United States Learn to Be a Smaller Country, and Can Cities Learn to Change?
11. Learning to Thrive in a Shrinking World: How Do We Get There?
