Shrinking Cities International Network (SCiRN), a program of the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, is in the News.

More coverage of Shrinking Cities on KQED's Forum with Michael Krasny, July 10, 2009. Guests included:

The Friday, June 12th topic of To The Point, a daily current affairs discussion program broadcast nationally on public radio from KCRW NPR station in Los Angeles, looks at how cities are coming up with new solutions to control change, instead of simply trying to cope with it as more and more metropolitan areas lose populations and healthy tax bases. It's all about shrinking, not growing. This is a great discussion with five experts. Link to the podcast here (.mp3) 24 MB, or link to article:
http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/tp/tp090612honey_i_shrunk_the_c

Additional coverage of the Shrinking Cities network occurred in print in a controversial article in the London Daily Telegraph about "Bulldozing cities". According to the article, dozens of U.S. cities may have entire neighborhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline. Read the article here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5516536/US-cities-may-have-to-be-bulldozed-in-order-to-survive.html

And the article that started it all, a New York Times article from April 22 regarding Flint, MI and their idea to control the city's decline by demolishing entire blocks and even whole neighborhoods, condensing the population as well as stores and services into a manageable core. You can read about it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/business/22flint.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=pallagst&st=cse