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Ordinary cities, extraordinary geographies : people place and space / edited by John R. Bryson, Ronald V. Kalafsky, Vida Vanchan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cities series (Edward Elgar Publishing)
- Cities Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Small cities.
- Small cities--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2021]
- Summary:
- This insightful book explores smaller towns and cities, places in which the majority of people live, highlighting that these more ordinary places have extraordinary geographies. It focuses on the development of an alternative approach to urban studies and theory that foregrounds smaller cities and towns rather than much larger cities and conurbations.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface: ordinary cities - place, space, time and biographical narratives
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Ordinary cities, extraordinary geographies: parallax dimensions, interpolations and the scale question
- 2. The progressive city in the neighborhood context
- 3. The mechanics of small metropolitan labor markets in the U.S. South: does job growth always drive population growth?
- 4. Examining the exports of smaller Southern cities and assessing "borrowed size"
- 5. (Extra) Ordinary Geelong: state-ledurban regeneration and economic revival
- 6. The infraordinary or the ordinary as extraordinary? Expertise (and not global) production networks and ordinary towns and cities
- 7. An ordinary but extraordinary city: Siem Reap Angkor, Cambodia
- 8. Resilience and development of a small city in India: Dholpur, Rajasthan
- 9. Interconnection between ethnic enclaves in a small city and globalization
- 10. Beside the seaside: vertical dis-integration, demographic imbalance and adaptation in UK coastal communities
- 11. Reframing urban theory: smaller towns and cities, forms of life, embedded plasticity and variegated urbanism
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78990-802-7
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