The Nasserite space has been shrinking over the three decades since his death.
A magnet for young professionals and students, the cafe seemed to offer a haven in a city where safe public space is rapidly shrinking.
Otherwise, the democratic space will shrink, and the Taliban's bargaining power in future talks will increase further.
The problem of living-space was, however, by far the greatest of their problems, for time and space shrank simultaneously around them.
And if you look at Colombia, ungoverned space is shrinking.
With the two speculative buildings now rising basically spoken for, available space is shrinking elsewhere along the waterfront.
That space is shrinking into oblivion as products on both sides of the divide become better.
But as anyone who has raised a family learns, living space shrinks as the number of children grows.
But the open space has been shrinking.
Then, because so many different kinds of things occurred simultaneously, one could almost believe that a great space had momentarily shrunk, bringing everyone close together.