Small cities : urban experience beyond the metropolis / edited by David Bell and Mark Jayne.
| Other author | Bell, David, 1965 February 12- |
| Other author | Jayne, Mark, 1970- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, UK ; New York : Routledge, 2006. |
| Description | xiii, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Series | Questioning cities Questioning cities series. ^A583196 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-273) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005037581 |
| ISBN | 0415366577 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0415366585 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0203019261 (ebk.) |
| ISBN | 9780415366571 |
| ISBN | 9780415366588 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HT151 .S496 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |