All of this as the city, shrinking in population, is facing a budget crisis of crippling proportion.
Tepetlán, a village of 1,800 people on a high plateau in the southeastern flanks of the Sierra Madre Oriental, has shrunk in population in recent years as scores of its citizens head "al otro lado," to the other side, as the United States is called.
In Vladivostok, a city of just under 600,000 people that had been shrinking in population until recently, local officials are reveling in the attention from Moscow, including the creation of a new federal agency focused on the Far East, and the huge bounty of federal spending.
Subsequent census counts documented an increase to 4,000 residents before a shrink in population at the 1980 census, when fruit prices rose, land was lost, and major employers were shut down.
In the second interpretation, agents themselves do not learn, but rather the strategies grow or shrink in the population according to the reproductive advantages that they bestow upon the agents that adhere to them.
In all, the white population shrank in 42 out of the top 100 cities.
These, he notes, followed the three largest known periods of plague, when the human population shrank in various parts of the world.
Shifting demographic patterns could also sharpen the American edge in innovation and entrepreneurship, as the pools of highly educated workers shrink in Europe and Japan and population growth shifts to areas of the world where education levels don't match America's.
Canon and Ricoh, two successful photocopier companies, already combine mechanics, toner technology and servicing skills.As Japan's student population shrinks in an ageing society, universities are delighted to find ways to attract older, richer students.
