Small Cities : Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis

ISBN-13: 9780415366588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 282 str.

David Bell; Mark Jayne

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Conceptualizing Small Cities  Part 1: The Political Economy of Small Cities  2. On the Dynamics of Ambivalent Urbanization and Urban Productivity in Port Louis, Mauritius  3. Temp Town: Temporality as a Place Promotion Niche in The World’s Furniture Capital  4. Jumping Scale: From Small Town Politics to a ‘Regional Presence’? Re-Doing Economic Governance in Canada’s Technology Triangle  5. Tourism in a Reluctantly Small City-Island-Nation: Insights From Singapore  Part 2: The Urban Hierarchy And Competitive Advantage  6. The Festival Phenomenon: Festivals, Events and the Promotion of Small Urban Areas  7. Gentrifying Down the Urban Hierarchy: ‘The Cascade Effect’ in Portland, Maine  8. The Re-Construction of a Small Scottish City: Re-Discovering Dundee  9. Urban Myth: The Symbolic Sizing of Weimar, Germany  Part 3: The Cultural Economy of Small Cities  10. Garden Cities and City Gardens  11. Small Cities for a Small Country: Sustaining the Cultural Renaissance?  12. Creative Small Cities: Cityscapes, Power and the Arts  13. Rethinking Small Places – Urban and Cultural Creativity: Examples from Sweden, the USA and Bosnia-Herzegovina  Part 4: Identity, Lifestyle and Forms of Sociability  14. Caudan: Domesticating the Global Waterfront  15. De-Centring Metropolitan Youth Identities: Boundaries, Difference and Sense of Place  16. Small City - Big Ideas: Culture-Led Regeneration and the Consumption of Place  17. Afterword - Sizing Up Small Cities