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| Kimberly Zarecor Associate Professor Architecture Iowa State University Bio | Website |
Sara Hamideh |
Eric Davis |
Preserving quality of life in shrinking Iowa cities. A grant from the National Science Foundation is exploring how communities can protect quality of life and community infrastructure while they lose population. The Shrink Smart Project aims to develop data-driven tools to assist towns in actively planning for shrinkage. Three people from Iowa State University joined the podcast: Kimberly Zarecor is an Associate Professor of Architecture, Sara Hamideh is an Assistant Professor of Community & Regional Planning, and Eric Davis is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. They discussed how they are using both data and qualitative research to figure out why some rural communities are maintaining their quality of life while they shrink and others don’t.
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As Rural Towns Lose Population, They Can Learn To ‘Shrink Smart’
Why Do Some Small Communities Still Thrive as They Lose Population?
Tri-State and “The Shrink Smart Project”
NSF Grant: A Data-Driven Framework for Smart Decision-Making in Small and Shrinking Communities
ISU studies small towns that succeed despite population losses