Cultural political economy of small cities /
edited by Anne Lorentzen and Bas van Heur.
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, c2012.
- xiv, 216 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction, cultural political economy of small cities / Anne Lorentzen and Bas van Heur -- 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 -- Finding creativity in a small city : how qualitative mapping methods can reveal new geographies of creativity / Chris Brennan-Horley -- Sustaining small cities through leisure, culture and experience economy / Anne Lorentzen -- Clarifying creativity and culture in a small city on the Canadian periphery : challenges and opportunities in greater Sudbury / Heather M. Hall and Betsy Donald -- The role of arts and culture in economic regeneration : Gaelic in Glasgow / Douglas Chalmers and Mike Danson -- Making a micropole : the experiensation of Vejle / Søren Smidt-Jensen -- Eclectic creativity : interdisciplinary creative alliances as informal cultural strategy / Alison Bain and Dylann McLean -- Europe's internal periphery : small towns in the context of reflexive polycentricity / Paul L. Knox and Heike Mayer -- Shifting strategies and contexts for culture in small city planning : interlinking quality of life, economic development, downtown vitality, and community sustainability / Nancy Duxbury -- Conflicting economic and cultural subjectivities : governing the future of a small and shrinking city / Nina Gribat -- Landscapes of nostalgia : place marketing and nostalgia in the American small town / Jennifer Mapes.
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Small cities--Economic aspects. Sociology, Urban. City planning.