· Urbanization
· Globalization and urban decline
· The context of shrinking cities
· Demographic uncertainty in shrinking cities and towns
· Economic restructuring
· Measuring city shrinkage
· Drivers of shrinkage
· Policy response to regeneration in developing world
· Challenges in governing shrinking cities and towns
· The consequences of shrinkage feedback loops, governance and contexts
· The geography and/or portrait of shrinking cities in developing countries
· Planning strategies and adjustments for growth and managing decline
· Measures of Revitalization in developing countries
· Assessment of approaches to urban shrinkage