Small Cities: Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis
by Bell, David; Jayne, MarkPub. Date: 2006-09-06
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
Providing a critical introduction into how, on whose behalf, and with what consequences cities are run, the international contributors to this topical volume focus their research on urban change within small cities around the world.
Table of Contents
| Conceptualizing Small Cities | |
| The Political Economy of Small Cities | |
| On the Dynamics of Ambivalent Urbanization and Urban Productivity in Port Louis, Mauritius | |
| Temp Town: Temporality as a Place Promotion Niche in The World's Furniture Capital | |
| Jumping Scale: From Small Town Politics to a "Regional Presence"? Re-Doing Economic Governance in Canada's Technology Triangle | |
| Tourism in a Reluctantly Small City-Island-Nation: Insights From Singapore | |
| The Urban Hierarchy And Competitive Advantage | |
| The Festival Phenomenon: Festivals, Events and the Promotion of Small Urban Areas | |
| Gentrifying Down the Urban Hierarchy: "The Cascade Effect" in Portland, Maine | |
| The Re-Construction of a Small Scottish City: Re-Discovering Dundee | |
| Urban Myth: The Symbolic Sizing of Weimar, Germany | |
| The Cultural Economy of Small Cities | |
| Garden Cities and City Gardens | |
| Small Cities for a Small Country: Sustaining the Cultural Renaissance? | |
| Creative Small Cities: Cityscapes, Power and the Arts | |
| Rethinking Small Places âÇô Urban and Cultural Creativity: Examples from Sweden, the USA and Bosnia-Herzegovina | |
| Identity, Lifestyle and Forms of Sociability | |
| Caudan: Domesticating the Global Waterfront | |
| De-Centring Metropolitan Youth Identities: Boundaries, Difference and Sense of Place | |
| Small City - Big Ideas: Culture-Led Regeneration and the Consumption of Place | |
| Afterword - Sizing Up Small Cities | |
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