Cultural political economy of small cities
By: edited by Anne Lorentzen and Bas van Heur
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415589505; 9780203803844
Subjects: Urban Sociology; Small cities; Economic aspects; City planning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, cultural political economy of small cities / Anne Lorentzen and Bas van Heur; title: Small cities and the sociospatial specificity of economic development : a heuristic approach / Bas van Heur 3. On a road to nowhere : a comment on amenities and urban and regional development / Høgni Kalsø Hansen and Lars Winther; title: Finding creativity in a small city : how qualitative mapping methods can reveal new geographies of creativity / Chris Brennan-Horley; title: Sustaining small cities through leisure, culture and experience economy / Anne Lorentzen; title: Clarifying creativity and culture in a small city on the Canadian periphery : challenges and opportunities in greater Sudbury / Heather M. Hall and Betsy Donald; title: The role of arts and culture in economic regeneration : Gaelic in Glasgow / Douglas Chalmers and Mike Danson; title: Making a micropole : the experiensation of Vejle / Søren Smidt-Jensen; title: Eclectic creativity : interdisciplinary creative alliances as informal cultural strategy / Alison Bain and Dylann McLean; title: Europe's internal periphery : small towns in the context of reflexive polycentricity / Paul L. Knox and Heike Mayer; title: Shifting strategies and contexts for culture in small city planning : interlinking quality of life, economic development, downtown vitality, and community sustainability / Nancy Duxbury; title: Conflicting economic and cultural subjectivities : governing the future of a small and shrinking city / Nina Gribat; title: Landscapes of nostalgia : place marketing and nostalgia in the American small town / Jennifer Mapes.