Question: Due to a decrease in population, the city of Detroit, Michigan, has proposed to shrink its physical size by bulldozing abandoned neighborhoods and selling the vacant land to farmers. The cause of Detroit's shrinking population can be attributed to
A: gentrification
B: agglomeration
C: deindustrialization
D: conurbation
Please eliminate two incorrect options first, then think it step by step and choose the most proper one option. Please reply with exactly 4 paragraphs and separate each paragraph with two new lines. The very first paragraph must start with the word "thieves".
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