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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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Global urban studies |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction and overview; PART I: Intranational twin cities; 1 Minneapolis-St. Paul: the iconic twins?; 2 'Too near neighbours to be good friends': Manchester and Salford; 3 NewcastleGateshead: a dynamic partnership; 4 The defence of old interests in a new city: Buda and Pest in Budapest in the late nineteenth century; 5 Urban Lagos 1927-67: a tale of two cities? |
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6 Twin cities in African history: a comparative analysis of the 19th and 20th century capitals of Borno7 Indian twin cities; 8 Women's everyday travel experiences in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan; 9 Hong Kong and Shenzhen: twins, rivals or potential megacity?; PART II: International twin cities; 10 Tabatinga, Leticia and Santa Rosa: emergence, transformation and merging of paired and triple cities in the Amazon; 11 The resiliency of Los Dos Laredos; 12 Border-city pairs in Europe and North America: spatial dimensions of integration and separation |
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13 Spatial portrait of twin towns on the Danube14 Central European cross-border towns: an overview; 15 Comines and Wervik: on the three-way divide of two historically integral towns; 16 Border twin cities in the Baltic Area: anomalies or nexuses of mutual benefit?; 17 City-twinning as local foreign policy: the case of Kirkenes-Nikel; 18 The Finnish-Russian border as a developmental resource: the case of Imatra and Svetogorsk; 19 Impacts of town-twinning on the communities of Imatra and Svetogorsk through different fields of cross-border cooperation |
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20 Blagoveshchensk and Heihe: (un)contested twin cities on the Sino-Russian border?21 Flows making places, borders making flows: the rise of Mae Sot-Myawaddy hub in the Thai-Burmese borderland; 22 So close, so far: national identity and political legitimacy in UAE-Oman border cities; Conclusion; Index |
| Summary |
This dynamic international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities on administrative and international borders across the world. Drawing on contemporary and historical examples, it documents constant and changing features of twinned communities over time. The chapters explore a variety of urban formations including independent cities located side-by-side; cities that have merged over decades or even centuries and those projected to merge; cities partitioned by treaties and cities duplicated in pursuit of better security, intensified trade or both between neighbouring countries. From Europe to Africa, North America to the Middle East, South America to Asia, this book focuses on relationships between cities, citizens and municipal/international borders. A cartographical contents and editorial commentary guide readers through diverse contributions. The authors ask how far cities are changing or remaining constant in the context of conurbanisation, Europeanisation and globalization. The book provides a glimpse into the variety of roles twin cities can play globally: from laboratories of integration and para-diplomatic actors to economic and cultural brokers. This is a valuable, engaging resource for researchers in the fields of geography, urban studies, border studies, international relations and global development. It will be of great use to individuals involved in twin-city initiatives and general readers |
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Cities and towns.
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Cities
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cities.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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changing borders.
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city borders.
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merging cities.
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twim communities.
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twinned cities.
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twinned communities.
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twin cities.
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urban borders.
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urban communities.
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urban fringe.
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urban regions.
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Cities and towns
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Garrard, John, editor
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Mikhaĭlova, Ekaterina, editor
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| ISBN |
9781351598682 |
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1351598686 |
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9781351598699 |
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1351598694 |
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9781351598675 |
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1351598678 |
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9781315104638 |
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1315104636 |
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