Quietly Shrinking Cities

[Quietly Shrinking Cities] presents a meticulous study of why people leave a city or have fewer children, causing the population to decline.

~Murtaza Haider and Stephen Moranis, National Post

Hartt presents a careful view of the current state of urban growth and suggests some possible outcomes for the future. ~S. A. Syme, CHOICE Connect

Hartt shines a light on a phenomenon that many of us urban and housing nerds don't think about often. ~Frances Bula, Literary Review of Canada

Hartt ranges across the wide scope of key indicators from immigration to environmentalism. This is an interesting read for anyone concerned with the fate of our urban places.

~Alan Hallsworth, British Journal of Canadian Studies

Hartt explores the broad outlines of the [shrinking cities] phenomenon and searches for some of its causes, which include deindustrialization, globalization, and the rise of the tertiary economy in major centres. On the whole this is a well-written, companionable study. ~John Douglas Belshaw, Thompson Rivers University, BC Studies