Unique Urbanity? Rethinking Third Tier Cities, Degeneration, Regeneration and Mobility /

• Main Author: Brabazon, Tara (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
• Subjects: Geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Urban geography.; Human geography.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Human Geography.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Preface Go to Darwin and starve, ya bastard
• Chapter One: Go where?  Creative industries after the Global Financial Crisis
• Chapter Two: Entering the third tier:  a tour through decay and disadvantage
• Chapter Three: Inland possibilities
• Chapter Four: When place finds a purpose
• Chapter Five: Urban Living through the life cycle
• Chapter Six : Digital distinctiveness
• Chapter Seven: Cities of hope and happiness.