For all the remedies that have been proposed for cities in distress, what has yet to be proposed is to make a city disappear. This Article explores such a proposal. Specifically, the Article will entertain the idea that a combination of Chapter 9 bankruptcy and disincorporation can be used to...

To date, research on municipal insolvency and urban decline has been focused on the population loss and deindustrialization that befell urban centers such as Cleveland, St. Louis, and Detroit. Far less attention has been paid to the far more numerous small cities that border those urban centers:...