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Author Bryson, John R

Title Ordinary Cities, Extraordinary Geographies People, Place and Space
Published Cheltenham, Gloucestershire : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (262 p.)
Series Cities Ser
Cities Ser
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
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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Small cities.
towns.
Small cities.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book
Author Kalafsky, Ronald V
Vanchan, Vida
ISBN 1789908027
9781789908022