Between 2000 and 2009, the white population there almost doubled, to more than 20,000, as the area's black and Hispanic communities shrank.
Overall, the world's urban population is expected to grow at an annual rate of 1.78% until 2030, while rural communities shrink.
Once the international donors leave for other troubled spots, the civil society community shrinks quickly and dramatically, and too often their focus becomes less on how to build an open society and more on how to survive in a post-donor environment.
The Rev. James E. Fitten, president of Concerned Black Clergy, has watched the political power of Camden's black community shrink, first with the election of the city's first Hispanic mayor in Mr. Milan, and now at the prospect of a state takeover.
The black gay clubs, serving an already limited number of people, were left without clubbers as the community shrunk.
In two episodes, Glover and crew have created a community, shrinking Atlanta's metropolitan scale down to its actual neighborhoods, corners, blocks, and its citizens.
In two episodes, Glover and crew have created a community, shrinking Atlanta's metropolitan scale down to its actual neighbourhoods, corners, blocks, and its citizens.
As a boy, Mitrani studied Hebrew in the synagogue's gardens and, in the 1970s, dispatched its Torah to Istanbul after the community shrank to just three families.
With each new instance of community censorship, the space for freedom of expression in this country - especially concerning the hidden stories of minority communities - shrinks.
The immigrant Brazilian farmers are practicing large-scale mechanized agriculture, mostly growing soybeans; that offers little work for the peasants and is leading their communities to shrink in numbers.
From coast to coast, middle-class communities are shrinking.
