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I mostly have 2 Problems with this article:
1) missing historic aspect of the problem: I can understand that this article isn't really about history but I guess it would be good if some historic examples would at least be mentioned in order to show that this isn't just a modern problem. Some links would be enough. You don't have to discuss it in depth. One of the most drastic examples I know of is Rome after the fall of the western empire. A city that had a bit less than a million inhabitants in antiquity and shrank to about 30k? inhabitants during the early middle ages before it started to grow again. (Quote from the Rome wiki site: Its population declined from more than a million in 210 AD to 500,000 in 273[41] to 35,000 after the Gothic War,[42] reducing the sprawling city to groups of inhabited buildings interspersed among large areas of ruins, vegetation, vineyards and market gardens.[43])
There are also examples where large towns completely disappeared (Babylon, Memphis and Thebes(Egypt), Karakorum etc. →
Lost_city
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2) Several kinds of articles seem to be overlapping:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterurbanization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinking_cities
etc...