Planning practice and the shrinking city: Reversing the land use allocation model

The challenge of the declining city has been met by the planning profession in Canada with little success. Planners have a powerful toolbox to address growing and redeveloping cities, but few potent techniques to address shrinkage. In this paper, we offer a new way for planners to think about and react to decline, answering a challenge Popper and Popper offered to the planning profession to engage in "smart decline".