Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-161) and index.

Introduction -- Ways to think about decline -- The shrinking Rustbelt: a pattern of decline -- Lessons from a declining city: Flint, Michigan after 40 years of population loss -- A new model for neighborhood change in shrinking cities -- Unfamiliar patterns in the sun: what postal workers already know -- Facing change in the Central Valley: a declining Fresno -- Endless growth in the desert? The fall of Phoenix -- Abandonment outside the Magic Kingdom: what went wrong in Orlando? -- Toward a new kind of city planning.