Conference key themes: - Urban and regional resilience, - Small cities after decline, - Small cities in non-core areas: local, regional and national policies on their shrinking and/or revival, - Local self-government and inter-budgetary relations, - Strategies and instruments of re-growth and...

A special issue of Journal of Public Economic Theory, to be edited by Professor Shlomo Weber, Leading Scientist of the Laboratory for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions, is planned.