All of this as the city, shrinking in population, is facing a budget crisis of crippling proportion.
Of the 1,346 counties that shrank in population between 2000 and 2007, 85percentt of them were outside the major metropolitan areas, according to the Census Bureau.
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.
Gradually the town shrank in population; the passenger depot was torn down in 1972 and the post office closed in 1974.
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.
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.
As in previous decades, the only exception to the trend is Stamford, a corporate center in Fairfield County that continues to grow, even as populations shrink in Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury and Bridgeport, the state's largest city.
China's working-age population continued to shrink in 2014, and real-estate developers reported substantial inventories of unsold housing.
All other demographic parameters of the original model are assumed to remain constant in time, and the relative sizes of the age classes grow and shrink in linear proportion to the total population size.
