Research Catalog

Title

Small cities : urban experience beyond the metropolis / edited by David Bell and Mark Jayne.

Publication

Abingdon, UK ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bell, David, 1965 February 12-
• Jayne, Mark, 1970-

Description

xiii, 280 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial transformations of global cities and larger metropolitan areas - this topical new volume seeks to redress this balance, focusing on urban change within small cities around the world. Drawing together research from a strong international team of contributors this book is structured in four distinct parts. The first part discusses how political and economic decision making comes together in the fabric of particular cities. Part two elaborates on this focus and looks in more detail at how such strategies of urban economic development seek to secure competitive advantage for cities. Part three addresses how cultural infrastructure and planning are almost ubiquitously being utilized in the regeneration of small cities. The fourth and final part addresses the mix of identities, lifestyles and ways in which different groups interact in small cities. With case studies from around the world, focusing principally on urban change rather than pure ethnographic description, there is a distinct focus on informed empirical research, which raises important conceptual issues surrounding urban change." -- Publisher description.

Series Statement

Questioning cities

Uniform Title

Questioning cities series

Subject

• Cities and towns
• Urban policy
• Cities
• cities
• Kleinstadt
• Stadtentwicklung
• Kleine steden
• Stedelijke ontwikkeling

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-273) and index.

Contents

Conceptualizing small cities/ David Bell and Mark Jayne -- The political economy of small cities -- On the dynamics of ambivalent urbanization and urban productivity in Port Louis, Mauritius / Abdoumaliq Simone -- Temp town : temporality as a place promotion niche in the world's furniture capital / John Joe Schlichtman -- Jumping scale : from small town politics to a 'regional presence'? : re-doing economic governance in Canada's technology triangle / Joseph Leibovitz -- Tourism in a reluctantly small city-island-nation : insights from Singapore / T.C. Chang -- The urban hierarchy and competitive advantage -- The festival phenomenon : festivals, events and the promotion of small urban areas / Andrew Bradley and Tim Hall -- Gentrifying down the urban hierarchy : 'the cascade effect' in Portland, Maine / Loretta Lees -- The re-construction of a small Scottish city : re-discovering Dundee / Greg Lloyd, John Mccarthy, and Deborah Peel -- Urban myth : the symbolic sizing of Weimar, Germany / Frank Eckardt -- The cultural economy of small cities -- Garden cities and city gardens / Malcolm Miles -- Small cities for a small planet : sustaining the cultural renaissance? / Graeme Evans and Jo Foord -- Creative small cities : cityscapes, power, and the arts / Gordon Waitt -- Rethinking small places : urban cultural creativity : examples from Sweden, the USA, and Bosnia-Herzegovina / Tom Fleming, Lia Ghilardi and Nancy K. Napier -- Identity, lifestyle, and forms of sociability -- Caudan : domesticating the global waterfront / Tim Edensor -- De-centring metropolitan youth identities : boundaries, difference, and sense of place / Gordon Waitt, Tim Hewitt and Ellen Kraly -- Small city : big ideas : culture-led regeneration and the consumption of place / Steven Miles -- Afterword : small change, sizing up small cities / David Bell and Mark Jayne.

ISBN

• 0415366577
• 9780415366571
• 0415366585
• 9780415366588
• 0203019261
• 9780203019269

LCCN

• 2005037581
• 9780415366571
• 9780415366588

OCLC

• ocm62878362
• 62878362
• SCSB-9414615

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library