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Unique Urbanity? - Rethinking Third Tier Cities, Degeneration, Regeneration and Mobility (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
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Unique Urbanity? - Rethinking Third Tier Cities, Degeneration, Regeneration and Mobility (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Geography
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This book investigates small cities - cities and towns that are not
well known or internationally branded, but are facing structural
economic and social issues after the Global Financial Crisis. They
need to invent, develop and manage new reasons for their existence.
The strengths and opportunities are often underplayed when compared
to larger cities. These small cities do not have the profile of New
York, London, Tokyo or Cairo, or second-tier cities like San
Francisco, Manchester, Osaka or Alexandria. This book traces the
current state of the creative industries literature after the GFC,
but with a specific focus. The specific - and worsening -
conditions in third-tier cities are logged. The social and economic
challenges within these regions are great, particularly with regard
to health and health services, education, employment, social
mobility and physical activity. This is not a study that merely
diagnoses problems but raises strategies for third-tier cities to
create both a profile and growth. The current research field is
synthesized to reveal how cities are defined, constituted,
developed and, in many cases, suffering decline. There is an
imperative to build relationships with other urban environments.
The book enters these under-discussed locations and reveal the
scarred layering of injustice, signified by depopulation,
dis-investment, economic decline and a reduction in public services
for health, transportation and education, while also developing
specific and innovative models for improvement. The vista summoned
in Unique Urbanity is international, with strong attention to
trans-local strategies that offer wide relevance, currency and
opportunities for policy makers. While third-tier cities are often
hidden, marginalized, invisible or demeaned, Unique Urbanity shows
that innovation, imagination and creativity can emerge in small
places.
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