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Author : Norman Crampton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671846718
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The 100 Best Small Towns in America written by Norman Crampton and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A nationwide guide to the best in small-town living"--Cover subtitle.
Author : John Nolen
Publisher : New York : Huebsch
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Replanning Small Cities written by John Nolen and published by New York : Huebsch. This book was released on 1912 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165823
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book Small-Town America written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing examination of small-town life More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live closer to more lucrative careers and convenient shopping, a wider range of educational opportunities, and more robust health care. But they have opted to live differently. In Small-Town America, we meet factory workers, shop owners, retirees, teachers, clergy, and mayors—residents who show neighborliness in small ways, but who also worry about everything from school closings and their children's futures to the ups and downs of the local economy. Drawing on more than seven hundred in-depth interviews in hundreds of towns across America and three decades of census data, Robert Wuthnow shows the fragility of community in small towns. He covers a host of topics, including the symbols and rituals of small-town life, the roles of formal and informal leaders, the social role of religious congregations, the perception of moral and economic decline, and the myriad ways residents in small towns make sense of their own lives. Wuthnow also tackles difficult issues such as class and race, abortion, homosexuality, and substance abuse. Small-Town America paints a rich panorama of individuals who reside in small communities, finding that, for many people, living in a small town is an important part of self-identity.
Author : David Bell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134212208
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Small Cities written by David Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Richard R. Lingeman
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)
Download or read book Small Town America written by Richard R. Lingeman and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1980 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The history of America is the history of its small towns. For better or worse, small town values, convictions, and attitudes have shaped the psyche of this nation...[This book] chronicles the rise and fall of small towns from the Atlantic to the Pacific and interweaves the story of their development with the main strands of American history..."--inside flap.
Author : Paul L. Knox
Publisher : Birkhaüser
ISBN 13 : 9783038212515
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)
Download or read book Small Town Sustainability written by Paul L. Knox and published by Birkhaüser. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age where the globalization process is threatening the uniqueness and vitality of small towns, and where most urban planning discourse is directed at topics such as metropol-regions or mega-regions and world cities, the authors here emphasize the need to critically reflect on the potential of small towns. They illustrate how small towns can meet the challenge of a fast-paced, globalized world, and based on case studies, movements, programs, and strategies, present the local cultures that effectively and sustainably promote traditions and identities. Small towns often play a critical role in regional economies. When small towns focus on their specific characteristics and exploit their opportunities, they can become stable niches within regional, national, and global economies, and thus contribute significantly to shaping their future. The second edition is expanded to cover the intensive development of small towns in China and Korea. In addition, the authors examine the impact of the economic crisis on small towns and the recent development of the Slow City movement.
Author : Peter Karl Kresl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317539761
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Smaller Cities in a World of Competitiveness written by Peter Karl Kresl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much recent research in Urban Studies has concentrated on the notion of the ‘global city’ but discussion has also covered a larger set of mega cities, with populations in excess of 10 million. This analysis has begged the question of the optimal size for a city – is larger always better? Smaller Cities explores the advantages and disadvantages of different sized cities, trying to determine their place in the global economy and hierarchy. How can smaller cities gain or retain their competitiveness in a world of large cities? In a globalized world, the nation has perhaps been diminished as an economic actor, with fiscal shortcomings and political gridlock leaving cities more or less on their own in the task of enhancing their competitiveness and improving the economic lives of their residents. This book argues that smaller cities of varying population can be important actors in competitiveness and aims to bring attention to an area often overlooked by researchers. In short, are Pittsburgh, San Diego and Austin less competitive than London and Mumbai? This volume will be of interest to students, researchers, and city professionals who work in urban economy and urban geography.
Author : James Robertson
Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Small Towns Book written by James Robertson and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wanda Urbanska
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684802236
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Moving To A Small Town written by Wanda Urbanska and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-06-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with charts, worksheets, and profiles of folks who've made the move (and love it), Moving to a Small Town is an inspirational guide book dedicated to helping you pinpoint your ideal small town and make your life there work - permanently. Thinking about leaving the city? Or just wishing you could? You're not alone. America is undergoing a rural renaissance, as countless thousands seek a simpler life and a safe, comfortable community in which to start businesses, raise families, and eventually retire.
Author : William Francis Garrett-Petts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781554200870
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book Whose Culture is It, Anyway? written by William Francis Garrett-Petts and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live, by consensus, in an Age of the Metropolis, and the vast preponderance of scholarship about contemporary urban life has focused on the phenomenon of big-city life. But that is an approach that overlooks the smaller cities and towns where many of us choose to live. Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? Community Engagement in Small Cities is a major contribution to the growing body of literature on the special character and value of small cities, especially aspects of their unique culture. This book, in focusing on community-engagement in the arts in small cities, offers particular and theoretical perspectives on small cities in Canada and beyond. Whose Culture Is It Anyway? Community Engagement in Small Cities extends the project, begun in The Small Cities Book: On the Cultural Future of Small Cities, by examining the cultural dynamics of the small city in a wide-ranging context, now looking at activities in an array of geographies, economies, and cultural settings, as well as particularities such as the inner city, brownfield sites, an online conference on the art of engagement, and cultural indicators. Contributors from a number of disciplines examine the cultural life of small urban centres -- in the fine and performing arts, in the critical literature, in public artworks, in parks and walking, and in other amenities through which a community expresses its cultural aspirations. The purpose, as stated in the editors' introduction, is to offer in critical context a body of well-researched studies of community engagement, studies that bring together dynamic aspects of cultural, social, political, economic realities in living community. The relation between culture and instrumentality, the importance of the local and specific, the regeneration of the urban by means of cultural activities, the value and contribution of small city studies, the movement toward an interdisciplinary research methodology -- indeed a wide-ranging re-valuation of the creative sector: all of these are addressed by Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? More specifically, and collectively, the writers and creative artists have approached their work in a particular way, viewing cultural events through a particular lens: that of community engagement -- a working concept far from definitional clarity. Often categorized with community development, community participation, community organization, community mobilization, community-based art, social practice, relational aesthetics, plus many allied terms, community engagement, for their purposes, remains a term of intellectual and practical choice. Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? includes contributions by Bruce Baugh, bill bissett, Ila Crawford, Nancy Duxbury, Alexander Forbes, Kathleen Irwin, Terry Kading & Christopher Walmsley, Caffyn Kelley, Ernie Kroeger, Lucy Lippard, Adelheid Mers, Judith Miller, Bernard Momer, Maureen F. Rogers & Barry P. Brockley, Si Transken, and Savannah Walling.
