Press Release /// August 24, 2006

Just Released: “Atlas of Shrinking Cities” and“Shrinking Cities - Complete Works 2“After more than four years of research work, the last twopublications of the project “Schrumpfende Städte / Shrinking
Cities” have now been released. The “Atlas of Shrinking Cities”
describes and analyzes the phenomenon of urban shrinking on thebasis of numerous maps, diagrams, and city portraits from aworldwide perspective; the digital publication “Complete Works
2 / Interventions” supplements the print publications primarily
with more than 6 hours of film on innovative models for action,
as well as 2,000 digital pages of study material.

Atlas der schrumpfenden Städte / Atlas of Shrinking Cities
Ed. Philipp Oswalt and Tim Rieniets. With editorial assistancefrom Elke Beyer, Anke Hagemann, Kristina Herresthal, andHenning Schirmel, 160 pages, 26.7 x 37.5 cm, with numerous
colored maps, German/English
Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Summer 2006
ISBN 3-7757-1714-5, 39.80 EuroWhich cities are shrinking? Where are these cities located?
What processes underlie this shrinking? The Atlas of Shrinking
Cities documents this global phenomenon with about 30 worldmaps, 50 diagrams, 40 city portraits, 15 lexical essays, and aregister of cities, thus making the process visuallycomprehensive with an innovative graphic realization.
Four chapters use statistics, maps, and illustrations toexplore the background of urban shrinking, which ranges fromdemographic developments and currents of migration throughdwindling resources and the destruction of nature to changes inpatterns of settlement. Case studies of shrinking cities fromevery continent present the concrete effects of global
processes of transformation. The register shows the population
development of all cities larger than 100,000 inhabitants thathave shrunk in the last fifty years.

Shrinking Cities: Complete Works 2, Interventionen /Interventions
Ed. Philipp Oswalt. With editorial assistance from Kristina
Herresthal, foldout brochure with enclosed data media,
German/English
ARCH+ Verlag GmbH, Aachen, 2006
ISBN 3-931435-03-2, Euro 20

2 DVDs with 23 films (total viewing time ca. 6hours) – ranging from documentaries through art
films to animation and advertising spots. The
contributions address self-empowerment projects;
artistic and media interventions; architectural,landscape, and urban planning models for action;
subsidy and migration policies; etc.
Films by Will Alsop/squint opera, Anke Haarmann, Chaos Computer
Club, complizen Planungsbüro, fiedler.tornquist, Gareth Morris,
lucky kitchen, Isa Rosenberger, Christoph Schäfer, Gitte
Villesen, and others.
1 CD with more than 2,000 pages of project
documentations, studies and research in German andEnglish: all the approaches to action newly
developed in the framework of the project, including
a comprehensive documentation of the contest“Reinventing Urbanism – Rethinking the City” withall participants in the second phase of the contest,
as well as extensive research on existing strategies
for action in the areas of architecture, landscape,art, media, performance, and local initiatives.
Review copies can be ordered at press@shrinkingcities.com.
The following volumes have already appeared:Shrinking Cities, Volume 1: International Investigation
Ed. Philipp Oswalt, 736 pages, Hatje Cantz 2004 (German), 2005
(English), € 39.80
Shrinking Cities, Volume 2: Interventions
Ed. Philipp Oswalt, 896 pages, Hatje Cantz 2005 (German), 2006
(English), € 39.80
Complete Works 1, Analyse/Analysis
Ed. Philipp Oswalt, CD/ DVD, Arch+ Verlag 2005, € 15

For more information, see:
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Contact
Press office and public relations
Dr. Astrid Herbold
Schrumpfende Städte - Shrinking Cities
Eisenacher Straße 74

D-10823 Berlin
Tel: +49 (30) 81 82 19-06
press@shrinkingcities.com
http://www.shrinkingcities.com
Shrinking Cities is a project of the German Federal Cultural
Foundation in cooperation with Project Office Philipp Oswalt,
the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, the Bauhaus Dessau
Foundation and the magazine archplus.