Small Cities: Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis (Questioning Cities) - Hardcover

Bell, David; Jayne, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415366577 ISBN 13: 9780415366571

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial transformations of global cities and larger metropolitan areas. In this topical new volume, David Bell and Mark Jayne redress this balance, focusing on urban change within small cities around the world.

Drawing together research from a strong international team of contributors, this four part book is the first systematic overview of small cities. A comprehensive and integrated primer with coverage of all key topics, it takes a multi-disciplinary approach to an important contemporary urban phenomenon. The book addresses:

• political and economic decision making
• urban economic development and competitive advantage
• cultural infrastructure and planning in the regeneration of small cities
• identities, lifestyles and ways in which different groups interact in small cities.

Centering on urban change as opposed to pure ethnographic description, the book’s focus on informed empirical research raises many important issues. Its blend of conceptual chapters and theoretically directed case studies provides an excellent resource for a broad spectrum of undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as providing a rich resource for academics and researchers.

About this title

About the Author:

David Bell is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Leeds

Mark Jayne is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0415366577
• ISBN 13: 9780415366571
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 282