Información General

• Autores: Jerzy Bański (ed. lit.)
• Editores: Routledge USA
• Año de publicación: 2021
• País: Estados Unidos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9780367555900
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Resumen

• The Routledge Handbook of Small Towns addresses the theoretical, methodical, and practical issues related to the development of small towns and neighbouring countryside. Small towns play a very important role in spatial structure by performing numerous significant developmental functions for rural areas. At the local scale, they act as engines for economic growth of rural regions and as a link in the system of connections between large urban centres and the countryside. The book addresses the role of small towns in the local development of regions in countries with different levels of development and economic systems, including those in Europe, Africa, South America, Asia, and Australia. Chapters address the functional structure of small towns, relations between small towns and rural areas, and the challenges of spatial planning in the context of shaping the development of small towns. Students and scholars of urban planning, urban geography, rural geography, political geography, historical geography, and population geography will learn about the role of small towns in the local development of countries representing different economic systems and developmental conditions.

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Listado de artículos

• • Small Towns: Theoretical Background and Research Issues

    • The functions and local linkages of small towns: A review of selected classifications and approaches to research

      Jerzy Bański

      

    • Small towns in settlement systems: A return to the foreground?

      Ewa Korcelli Olejniczak

      

    • Small towns: Theoretical background and research issues – perspectives from the United States

      Benjamin Ofori Amoah

      

    • Small Towns: Theoretical background and research issues. Exploring the diversity of small towns in France

      Christophe Demaziere

      

    • Spanish small towns: Evolution, functional structure, and characterisation

      Carmen Vázquez Varela, José María Martínez Navarro

      

    • Determining villages’ status and their economic functions: The case of Mongolia

      Altanbagana Myagmarsuren, Solongo Bayarsaikhan, Mungunchimeg Batkhuyag

      

  • The Role and Significance of Small Towns in Socio-Economic Development

    • The small Romanian towns: From creative destruction to destructive creation and back?

      Ioan Ianoş

      

    • From informal to formal: Towards the sustainable transformation of small towns in Africa

      Miguel Amado, Francesca Poggi

      

    • Small, but resilient: A case study of the town of Utazu, Kagawa, Japan

      Atsushi Taira

      

    • The natural and migration movements versus population ageing in Poland’s small towns

      Jerzy Bański, Wioletta Kaminska, Miroslaw Mularczyk

      

    • Performance of small towns in an economically Lagging Region: A case study of the Spiš Region, Slovakia

      Ladislav Novotný, Marián Kulla, Janetta Nestorová Dická, Loránt Pregi, Stela Csachová

      

    • Small towns in the energy transition era: Local drivers for climate change adaptation?

      Francesca Poggi, Ana Firmino, Miguel Amado

      

    • Contemporary status of small towns in Bulgaria: Functions and role in the development of rural regions

      Boian Koulov, Chavdar Mladenov

      

  • Small Towns in Rural Space

    • Changing urban–rural relations in Israel’s periphery

      Michael Sofer, Nir Cohen, Levia Applebaum, Irit Amit-Cohen, Yardena Shaul, Irit Shmuel

      

    • Urban–rural linkages: An inquiry into second-home tourism in the nordics

      Elin Slätmo, Iryna Kristensen

      

    • New rural–urban relationships of small towns in North-Western Germany

      Kim Philip Schumacher, Karl Martin Born

      

    • Small regional centres at the periphery of Switzerland: Porrentruy and Brig-Glis

      Walter Leimgruber

      

    • Small towns in rural space: The case of Czechia

      Antonín Vaishar, Jana Zapletalová

      

    • Urban growth engines or relational proximity? What can we learn from enterprise population and business demography indicators in the context of rural and small-town Scotland?

      Andrew Copus

      

    • The role of farmers in small-town community development in an age of austerity: Reflections from Australasia

      Etienne Nel, Teresa Stevenson

      

    • Agri-food workers: Transnational connections in small towns and rural areas

      Ruth McAreavey

      

  • The Small Towns Planning Challenges

    • Inter-municipal spatial planning as a tool to prevent small-town competition: The case of the Emilia-Romagna Region

      Giancarlo Cotella, Erblin Berisha

      

    • Ukrainian small cities in the perspective of sustainable spatial planning

      Eugenia Maruniak, Leonid Rudenko, Sergiy Lisovskyi, Olena Dronova

      

    • Small town survival in rural Australia: A New England case study

      Anthony Sorensen

      

    • Technologies of government and policy implementation in small towns economic development plans in Mpumalanga, South Africa

      Sabelo Tshabalala, Ashley Gunter

      

    • Small towns in the planning system: The experience of the United States

      Benjamin Ofori-Amoah

      

    • Disturbing the creation of a spatial system: Outside intervention and urbanization in the Republic of the Marshall Islands

      Eberhard Weber, Camari Koto

      

    • Challenges of local planning in Peruvian small towns: The example of Alexander von Humboldt Town in the Amazonian Basin

      Ana Sabogal Dunin Borkwski