Small cities
Subtitle: urban experience beyond the metropolis
By: edited by David Bell and Mark Jayne
Contributors: Bell, David, 1965 Feb. 12-; Jayne, Mark, 1970-
Series: Questioning cities; Questioning cities series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Cities and towns; Urban policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-273) and index
Table of contents: title: Conceptualizing small cities/ David Bell and Mark Jayne; title: The political economy of small cities; title: On the dynamics of ambivalent urbanization and urban productivity in Port Louis, Mauritius / Abdoumaliq Simone; title: Temp town : temporality as a place promotion niche in the world's furniture capital / John Joe Schlichtman; title: Jumping scale : from small town politics to a 'regional presence'? : re-doing economic governance in Canada's technology triangle / Joseph Leibovitz; title: Tourism in a reluctantly small city-island-nation : insights from Singapore / T.C. Chang; title: The urban hierarchy and competitive advantage; title: The festival phenomenon : festivals, events and the promotion of small urban areas / Andrew Bradley and Tim Hall; title: Gentrifying down the urban hierarchy : 'the cascade effect' in Portland, Maine / Loretta Lees; title: The re-construction of a small Scottish city : re-discovering Dundee / Greg Lloyd, John Mccarthy, and Deborah Peel; title: Urban myth : the symbolic sizing of Weimar, Germany / Frank Eckardt; title: The cultural economy of small cities; title: Garden cities and city gardens / Malcolm Miles; title: Small cities for a small planet : sustaining the cultural renaissance? / Graeme Evans and Jo Foord; title: Creative small cities : cityscapes, power, and the arts / Gordon Waitt; title: Rethinking small places : urban cultural creativity : examples from Sweden, the USA, and Bosnia-Herzegovina / Tom Fleming, Lia Ghilardi and Nancy K. Napier; title: Identity, lifestyle, and forms of sociability; title: Caudan : domesticating the global waterfront / Tim Edensor; title: De-centring metropolitan youth identities : boundaries, difference, and sense of place / Gordon Waitt, Tim Hewitt and Ellen Kraly; title: Small city : big ideas : culture-led regeneration and the consumption of place / Steven Miles; title: Afterword : small change, sizing up small cities / David Bell and Mark Jayne