From the Economist: How to shrink a city

[Bham1982]

BTW, if anyone doesn't appreciate what the effect of small families have had on population, look at Dearborn, what was [[is?) a rock solid suburb:

Significant population losses in the 60s, 70, and 80s and now at 1970s population levels...

If my math is correct, from 4/1/1960 to 4/1/1990, Dearborn lost about 20% [[89K/ 112K).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dearborn,_Michigan

Smaller household sizes aren't really relevant to a discussion of inner-city population loss. Cities have always had smaller household sizes throughout the world, and the issues specifically facing Detroit are related to fundamental lack of demand, not changes to household structure.