Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities (Hardcover)

1. Introduction, Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities Anne Lorentzen and Bas van Heur  Theory and Methods  2. Small Cities and the Sociospatial Specificity of Economic Development: A Heuristic Approach Bas van Heur  3. On a Road to Nowhere: A Comment on Amenities and Urban and Regional Development Høgni Kalsø Hansen and Lars Winther  4. Finding Creativity in a Small City: How Qualitative Mapping Methods can Reveal New Geographies of Creativity Chris Brennan-Horley  Culture as Economic Growth Strategy  5. Sustaining Small Cities through Leisure, Culture and Experience Economy Anne Lorentzen  6. Clarifying Creativity and Culture in a Small City on the Canadian Periphery: Challenges and Opportunities in Greater Sudbury Heather M. Hall and Betsy Donald  7. The Role of Arts and Culture in Economic Regeneration: Gaelic in Glasgow Douglas Chalmers and Mike Danson  Actors, Networks, Creative Alliances  8. Making a Micropole: The Experiensation of Vejle Søren Smidt-Jensen  9. Eclectic Creativity: Interdisciplinary Creative Alliances as Informal Cultural Strategy Alison Bain and Dylann McLean  10. Europe's Internal Periphery: Small Towns in the Context of Reflexive Polycentricity Paul L. Knox and Heike Mayer  Culture Governance, Social Equity  11. Shifting Strategies and Contexts for Culture in Small City Planning: Interlinking Quality of Life, Economic Development, Downtown Vitality, and Community Sustainability Nancy Duxbury  12. Conflicting Economic and Cultural Subjectivities: Governing the Future of a Small and Shrinking City Nina Gribat  13. Landscapes of Nostalgia: Place Marketing and Nostalgia in the American Small Town Jennifer Mapes