Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities

Abstract

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 Hogni Kalso 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 Soren 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